Quotes About Paradox

The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.

I have never done anything in my life except try to make myself ill when I had my health and try to make myself well when I had lost it. I have been equally and thoroughly successful in both, and today in that particular I enjoy perfect health, which I wish I could ruin again; but age prevents me.

Children find everything in nothing, men find nothing in everything.

La natura è sleale, nella sua innocenza.

Thanks to God, I'm an atheist.

Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Is that the ultimate paradox of life, she wondered, that the universe should become less clear with age?

The paradox of the modern age, I realized, is that we live in a world that is closely integrated in some ways, but fragmented in others. Shocks are increasingly contagious. But we continue to behave and think in tiny silos.

Increasingly political, assertive, articulate, and outspoken as we age, many of us become, paradoxically, the girls we were once: wild, hearty, courageous, and playful.

Non-being is "not to be spoken of," for it is, in the strictest sense, nowhere.

Sunt suspendat între cer ÅŸi p?mânt, prea greoi ca s? m? înalÅ£ spre stele ÅŸi prea eteric ca s? scormonesc în noroi.

Parts of him were built to be awake before dawn and yearning to be both absolutely still and moving everywhere at once.

We're the worst thing because for us the worst thing is the best thing. And it's only the best thing for us if it's the worst thing for someone else.

The Curse has a thing for contrast: frivolity one minute, homicide the next.

I don't approve of people who watch television, but I am one of them.

Unlike the Jester and the Clown, who are at the bottom of a hierarchical pile and survive only by making the king laugh, the Trickster is free, a paradox, a breaker of boundaries who makes us laugh—and laughter lets the sacred in. In Native spiritualities, there is often a belief that we cannot pray unless we've laughed.

Thanks to her, I began to learn about the Trickster, a common figure in Native myhtologies, a boundary crosser who can go anywhere. Unlike the Jester and the Clown, who are at the bottom of a hieractchical pile and surivive only by making the king laugh, the Trickster is free, a paradox, a break of boundaries who makes us laugh- and laughter lets the sacred it.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

Deliberately and spiritedly doing the opposite of what it takes to get there yet you expect to get there. This is one of the true definitions of madness.