Quotes About Paradox

As the place is worth seeing, nobody goes there.

It was a garbage heap, and it was Sinai.

An opulent priest is a contradiction.

I see a dark light.

And whatever he did, he always fell back onto this paradox at the core of his thought. To remain in paradise and become a demon! To re-enter hell and become an angel!

A harmony established contrary to sense is often more onerous than a war.

Joly, perceiving a cat prowling on a gutter, extracted philosophy from it. What is the cat? he exclaimed. It is a corrective. The good God, having made the mouse, said: 'Hullo! I have committed a blunder.' And so he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, is the proof of creation revised and corrected.

But no sword is simple. Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.

La Tour-Gauvain avait une destinée étrange : un Gauvain l'attaquait, un Gauvain la défendait.

God will reward you, he said. You must be an angel since you care for flowers. I'm no angel, she replied. I'm the devil, but it's all the same to me.

Todos los actos humanos tienen dos caras!

A vida é uma invenção medonha não sei de quem. Uma coisa que não dura nada e não vale nada; a gente se mata para viver.

Du reste qui dit lumière ne dit pas nécessairement joie. On souffre dans la lumière; l'excès brûle. La flamme est ennemie de l'aile. Brûler sans cesser de voler, c'est là le prodige du génie.

We are equally far removed from the hosanna of Joseph de Maistre, who wound up by anointing the executioner, and from the sneer of Voltaire, who even goes so far as to ridicule the cross.

Alaska herself can be Sleeping Beauty one minute and a bitch with a sawed-off shotgun the next.

Perhaps the most complicated things are also the most beautiful.

For each rule of thumb, there is something that breaks that rule.

Love will always be without a doubt, Within Hate

I'm worse at what I do best.

I'm worse at what I do best. And for this gift, I feel blessed.

i'm worse at what i do best.

Any consistent formal system F within which a certain amount of elementary arithmetic can be carried out is incomplete; i.e., there are statements of the language of F which can neither be proved nor disproved in F.

Time-travel is possible, but no person will ever manage to kill his past self. Godel laughed his laugh then, and concluded, The a priori is greatly neglected. Logic is very powerful.

Berlin vereint die Nachteile einer amerikanischen Großstadt mit denen einer deutschen Provinzstadt.