Quotes About Paradox

The art of life is being extremely serious about it and not caring about it at all, both at the same time.

Mas tinha mesmo de ser assim, que aquilo que perfa a felicidade do homem também seja a fonte de sua miséria?

For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.

For someone who's smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.

We human beings are paradoxes. We love the fruits of commitment, love, and order. Yet a dark side of us is often anticommitment, antilove, and antiorder. We would prefer to receive these things; we have to be taught and we have to deliberately choose to give these things. This is a fundamental testimony to the evil within.

Beauty and folly are sisters.

ABSURDITY, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

"We want in so many different ways to be," he began again. "This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man he will never on his heap of mud keep still. He want to be so, and again he want to be so…" He moved his hand up, then down… "He wants to be a saint, and he wants to be a devil..."

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules.

There's nothing sweeter than a cup of bitter coffee.

Dying ain't pretty. Death is beautiful.

A death-blow is a life-blow to some Who, till they died, did not alive become; Who, had they lived, had died, but when They died, vitality begun.

I thought "clean eating" was devouring cupcakes while mopping the floor.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

The life of Marian Evans had much I never knew — a doom of fruit without the bloom, like the Negra fig...

If time and space are curved, where do all of the straight people come from?

God is bad, truth is a cheat, and life is a joke.

Hay un éxtasis que señala la cúspide de la vida y por encima del cual no puede elevarse esta. Y lo paradójico de la vida es que este éxtasis cuando uno esta más vivo y se olvida absolutamente de que lo está. Este éxtasis, este olvido de la existencia, se produce en el artista, atrapándolo y sacándolo de si en una llama de pasión; se produce en el soldado, ebrio de guerra en un campo desolado cuando lucha sin cuartel

We are a down-trodden race." "You are a down-trodden race because you are lazy," said Chilke. "If I am lazy and you are not, how is it that I am carrying your baggage while you walk light-foot?" For a moment or two Chilke deigned no explanation of the seeming paradox; then he said: "If you knew anything about the laws of economics, you would not ask such a banal question.

Like any craft, writing is mastered by practice and patience, and if one has any "knack" for it at all, that very knack—paradoxically—can explicate everything under the sun but itself.

What a paradox, what a fearful reproach, when the distinction of a few hundred miles — nay, as many feet or even inches! — can transform heinous crime to simple unqualified circumstance!

You're better off, d'Aiglemort said dryly. Steel and faith are an unnatural mix.

Il est étrange que je meure de l'utérus, moi qui n'ai jamais eu de règles et qui n'ai pas connu les hommes.

The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision.