Quotes About Paradox

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

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.

Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.

A cat sleeps fat, yet walks thin.

History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

That's why I love philosophy: no one wins.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Certainty a strange Ferris wheel of a statement!

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

I'm drawn between the light and dark.

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.

The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.

You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.

You can't explain the unknown in terms of the incomprehensible.

Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.

Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of a sane being.

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.

Nature loves to hide.