Quotes About Paradox

Al nacer Rosa era blanca, lisa, sin arrugas, como una muñeca de loza, con el cabello verde y los ojos amarillos, la criatura más hermosa que había nacido en la tierra desde los tiempos de pecado original.

Hay una maldición china que viene al caso, «le deseo una vida interesante». La bendición correspondiente sería «le deseo una vida banal» —

La vida está llena de ironías, mejor gozar lo que se tiene ahora, sin pensar en un mañana hipotético

To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young.

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

A town that has no ceiling price, A town of double-talk; A town so big men name her twice, Like so: 'N'Yawk, N'Yawk.'

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; yet nothing troubles me less.

The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.

Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears: What is it else? a madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Ottawa is a city where nobody lives, though some of us may die there.

Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.

If you want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

The absurd man is he who never changes.

They are proud in humility; proud that they are not proud.

The prickly thorn often bears soft roses.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of everything.

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent.

With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour, and survival a thing not beyond the bounds of possibility.

The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to proof.