Quotes About Paradox

Certum est, quia impossible est.

Credere quia absurdum est

I believe because it is absurd.

How can a river that rises in a black forest and discharges in a black sea be celebrated as blue?

opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree;

I'm famous. Ain't that a bitch?

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

There is laughter because there is nothing to laugh at.

The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous.

Myth is already enlightenment, and enlightenment reverts to mythology.

Only those thoughts which go to extremes can face up to the all-powerful powerlessness of certain agreement.

As the Habsburg military used to say, the situation is catastrophic, but not serious.

And we even recognise the apparent paradox that some limitations to our freedoms have the consequence of making us freer overall.

The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable.

The darkness has it's own light.

Nothing is always absolutely so

as they say, a Cretan is attacking a Cretan" (quod dici solet, Cretensis incidit in Cretensem); that is, "it takes a thief to catch a thief," or "it takes one to know one

The past and the present kept smashing into each other in completely untenable ways.

My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused/confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation.

I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time

On the contrary, Augustine says (Enchiridion 14) that "evil exists only in good.

everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death

Ausgerechnet der Mensch ist unmenschlich.

Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.