Quotes About Paradox

Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable.

You can and you can't, You will and you won't; You'll be damn'd if you do, You'll be damn'd if you don't.

There is one thing certain, namely, that we can have nothing certain; therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain.

But ne'er the rose without the thorn.

Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.

The nearer the church, the further from God.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

True, I drive an Italian sports car around Hollywood, but the radio is tuned to a country-and-Western station.

You have to have tunnel vision as a dancer to get to where you're going. But once you get there, you have to save yourself by spreading your horizons. It's the paradox of this profession. The very thing that makes you very good will destroy you.

The Christian experiences and lives a paradox. He possesses joy in sorrow, fulfillment in exile, light in darkness, peace in turmoil, consolation in dryness, contentment in pain and hope in desolation.

Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell.

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.

Turns out I'm good with guns even though I don't like them.

The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.

Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.

Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge, and when they do so with words their statements are paradoxical and full of logical contradictions.

Why do they bother with a suicide watch when someone is on death row? "Keep an eye on this guy. We're gonna kill him, and we don't want him to hurt himself."

Leave it up to hipster nerds to pretend to hate something that they actually want