Quotes About Paradox

Faith is believing in something you know isn't true.

To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.

The ugly may be beautiful, the pretty never.

If love eats the donut, does time eat the hole?

If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will.

I asked Mr. Wrangle what you were like. He said you were hornet juice and rosebuds in a container of gazelle meat.

Matters are very seldom all black or white. They can even be both at the same time - The Beer Fairy

They coil around each other, the light and the darkness, and they absorb each other continuously, yet they never cancel each other out.

The underworld persists because society needs it, insists upon it, supports it (at the same time that it denies and persecutes it, of course).

Only the obtuse are unappreciative of paradox.

And did I lose my faith in raffles about the same time and for approximately the same reasons that I quit believing that virgins can have babies; or that if I slay only those people the government encourages me to slay, I'll be allowed to spend all of eternity in some vaguely located puffyland sipping milk and honey with a huzzahing throng of cheery nonthinkers?

What if the Christ and the Messiah come, and they're two different guys?

They say that February is the shortest month, but you know they could be wrong.

The mystics say that as soon as you give it up, you can have it. That may be true, but who wants it when you don't want it.

It's meaning that is of no meaning. That paradox is the key to the meaning of meaning. To look for meaning--or the lack of it--in things is a game played by beings of limited consciousness. Behind everything in life is a process that is beyond meaning. Not beyond understanding, mind you, but beyond meaning.

If time eats the doughnut, does love eat the hole?

The mystics say that as soon as you give it up, you can have it. That may be true, but who wants it when you don't want it.

although the phrase "come back" is misleading because in the realm of meditative daydream the only way to "go there" is, paradoxically, to totally "be here.

It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.

Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.

I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.

So it is with us all, we're not so one-or-the-other. The one who puts on the clothes in the morning is the working majority, but at night-perhaps in the moment before unconsciousness- we meet our sleeper- the priest is visited by the doubter, the Marxist sees the civilizing force of the bourgeoisie, the captain of the industry admits the justice of common ownership.

Do not dabble in paradox, Edward, it puts you in danger of fortuitous wit.

I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way contradicting yourself.