Quotes About Paradox

Possible impossibility emerges From an impossible possibility, Or possibly, impossible possibility Blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility.

I have seen flowers come in stony placesAnd kind things done by men with ugly faces, And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust, too.

Pure has become impure, Impure has now become pure.Good has now become bad, Bad has become evil.For one to live is to die, for one to die is to live.-Kikyo

It is necessary to note, " says Rumi, "that opposite things work together, even though nominally opposed" (Fihi Ma Fihi).

Dejan Stojanovic, The Creator

And I am now compelled to wonder if wisdom has ever existed or can ever exist. Might wisdom be as impossible in this particular universe as a perpetual-motion machine?

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22 which specified the concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one no less wise to balance it.

The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.

Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that's my job. But argue with women in love—no thank you!

Paradoxical as it may seem, men and women who are free to pursue individualism and material wealth turn out to be the most compassionate of all.

It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?

An economist is a man who knows a hundred ways of making love but doesn't know any women.

I had known there had been a serial killer on Mount Tamalpais, and it felt so incongruous in such a beautiful, peaceful spot.

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads.

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

Snake's poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means "death.

The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years.

I think that men has the most highly developed intelligence. I think men get so intelligent that they're stupid.

God works by contraries so that a man feels himself to be lost in the very moment when he is on the point of being saved.

What destroys one man preserves another.

The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.