Quotes About Paradox

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope

Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.

If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?

Old contradictions never die; they just get new outfits.

I am and not: I freeze and yet am burned, Since from myself, my other self I turned.

The information paradox- that the more data we have, the stupider we become- has a social corollary, too: that the more frantically we connect, one to another, the more disconnected our relationships become.

The devices meant to simplify our lives merely create new and improved complexities.

Christian Center. Scott was a Stanford Ph.D. from rural Idaho who described himself as "the most agnostic believer and the most believing agnostic.

Sometimes I think I've figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida, swamped by incongruity and paradox, and I have to start all over again.

There is a way, however, to turn poison into medicine. Depending on how it's used, a single substance can be either poisonous or medicinal.

You're the very nicest jerk I know.

Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese.

You know, you're kind of squeamish for such a lethal person

It's strange to be so physically close to someone who's so distant

One man in a fluffy robe holds only an overripe banana.

Trust is important." "I think it's more important than love. I mean, I love all kinds of things I don't trust. Thunderstorms... white liquor... snakes. Sometimes I think I love them because I can't trust them, and how mixed up is that?

Paradox," he said, "is the space God gives us for the exercise of the will. And our attraction to beauty is what He gives us to draw the will. We desire what is beautiful and restlessly seek it out. When we find it, we find God.

maybe love itself is a paradox, a figment of our collective imaginations!

Yet this points to a paradox of institutionalized nostalgia: the stronger the loss, the more it is overcompensated with commemorations, the starker the distance from the past, and the more it is prone to idealizations.

The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.

Whenever something good happens to me, it's usually followed by something terrible.

'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.