Quotes About Paradox

Much that may seem evil can be good.

madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin.

Speaking for the grotesques," he said, "I beg to differ. Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.

There was no slavery in the free city of Pentos. Nonetheless, they were slaves.

It is one of the sad ironies of life that one has to make money in order to spend time but waste time in order to make money. In

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

Love is not "fulfilling" oneself through the use of another. Love is giving oneself to another, for the good of the other, and receiving the other as a gift.78 The lethal paradox of the age was that, for all its alleged humanism, it had ended up devaluing the human person into an economic unit, an ideological category, an expression of a class or race or ethnicity.

The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron.

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?

The cradle is shallower than the grave.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

Un sim? al libert??ii absolute. Un sentiment asem?n?tor po?i avea doar în mormânt ?i la WC. Interesant e c? ambele au aproximativ acelea?i dimensiuni.

It may look like a boat with a hole, but it may be a hole with a boat.

It is impossible to imitate Voltaire without being Voltaire.

The strictest justice is sometimes the greatest injustice.

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

Life is ever since man was born, licking honey from a thorn.

No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.

Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

When everything has to be right, something isn't.