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Quotes About Paradox

conviene que las cosas divinas se representen más en la figura de los cuerpos viles que en la figura de los cuerpos nobles. Primero
~ Umberto Eco
Ik voelde me verdoofd van de slaap, want de slaap overdag is als de zonde van het vlees: hoe meer je ervan hebt gehad, hoe meer je ervan zou willen hebben, en toch voel je je ongelukkig, voldaan en onvoldaan tegelijkertijd.
~ Umberto Eco
Siz gülmeye gülüyorsunuz, ama gene de gülüyorsunuz.
~ Umberto Eco
Afirmar la absoluta omnipotencia de Dios y su absoluta disponibilidad con respecto a sus propias opciones, ¿no equivale a demostrar que Dios no existe?
~ Umberto Eco
Piamonte... Acerqué la foto y leí la dedicatoria. Decía: «Porque yo soy la primera y la última. Yo soy la honrada y la odiada. Yo soy la prostituta y la santa. Sophia.»
~ Umberto Eco
With irony we say the opposite of truth.
~ Umberto Eco
Counterfactual conditionals are always true, because the premise is false.
~ Umberto Eco
È, o è stato, per molti aspetti, un grande uomo. Ma proprio per questo è strano. Sono solo gli uomini piccoli che sembrano normali.
~ Umberto Eco
ya se sabe que la historia se repite dos veces, la primera en forma de tragedia y la segunda en forma de farsa.
~ Umberto Eco
It is not intuitive why all this is intuitive.
~ Umberto Eco
He is the one who taught how to distinguish contradictions in order to mediate them harmoniously. Once the trick was clear, they thought that Thomas's lesson was this: Where yes and no are opposed, create a "nes.
~ Umberto Eco
Es un círculo diabólico en el que el contestatario potencia aquello que cree destruir.
~ Umberto Eco
I am like a man who looks at one side of a coin and then at the other, and they are different, and he can't decide which is the coin. I see co-operation, and that delights me; then I see repression, and that repels me. Which is the coin?
~ Upton Sinclair
Why hang a man who was so ready to hang himself?
~ Upton Sinclair
love being like a lump of coal: hot, it burns you; cold, it makes you dirty.
~ Vasily Grossman
The four cardinal points are three: South and North.
~ Vicente Huidobro
De fiecare dat? când este aplicat? tehnica intenÈ›iei paradoxale, pacientul îÈ™i actualizeaz? capacitatea primar? de detaÈ™are de sine, fiind totodat? capabil s? pun? o distan?? între sine È™i nevroza de care sufer?.
~ Victor E Frankl
Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
~ Victor Hugo
Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
~ Victor Hugo
Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.
~ Victor Hugo
A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man...
~ Victor Hugo
Of a disposition at once unsociable and talkative, desiring to see no one, yet wishing to converse with some one, he got out of the difficulty by talking to himself.
~ Victor Hugo
Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
~ Victor Hugo
Un sceptique qui adhère à un croyant cela est simple comme la loi des couleurs complémentaires.Ce qui nous manque nous attire.
~ Victor Hugo