Quotes About Paradox

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

We constantly lived in the paradox of precariousness. The money was never there when you needed it, and it was always on time.

This is why we can't have nice things: bears chase the bulls while China shops. Ah, unbearable lightness of bling! Everyone waits for one-eyed kings. The sharpest corners wait for shins. This is why we can't have nice things.

All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is exquisite. We feel what the Japanese call "aware"--an almost untranslatable word meaning something like "beauty tinged with sadness.

Lately I've had to redefine the word "knowledge" to a knowledge that cannot know anything. I'm dealing not in careless absurdities here but in the way material reality is unobservable and implicit order can be found in paradox. Perhaps despair is the only human sin. Who am I to feel disappointment? Is a bird disappointed in the sky

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

By exclaiming that "there are no absolute truths" the postmodern stance is also claiming that the statement it just made is an absolute truth—trying to have it both ways, rejecting absolutism with absolutism.

He who wishes to preserve, often destroys, so that virtue seems vice, and vice seems virtue.

The best evidence that time travel is impossible is the fact that we haven't been invaded by hordes of tourists from the future.

that coronation of the team's achievements paradoxically heralded the beginning of the end for Rijkaard's Barcelona, as the first signs of indiscipline became apparent.

Paradoja ser entrenado para resistir los ataques del mismo que te entrena.

el Distrito Federal es mi ciudad favorita, amo esta ciudad y por eso puedo decir que está más fea que antes. Creo que es la ciudad más horrible del mundo. ¿Y sabe qué? Eso me gusta.

The great physicist Niels Bohr said, "There are two types of truth. In the shallow type, the opposite of a true statement is false. In the deeper kind, the opposite of a true statement is equally true.

The philosophic absurdity that often marks general beliefs has never been an obstacle to their triumph. Indeed the triumph of such beliefs would seem impossible unless on the condition that they offer some mysterious absurdity.

But there is one thing that is privileged to be a paradoxical sign of God, in relation to which men are able to manifest their deepest commitment -- our Neighbor. The sacrament of our Neighbor!' -- Congar

Bonnie Jean (who thinks all philosophers are idiots) has this quarrel with Wittgenstein, who in several places says that reddish green is inconceivable. Yet every summer, when our peppers are drying from green to red, one can see an intermediate stage that is precisely reddish green.

In fact living is dying.

In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.

In fact, they live in a state of constant paradox where truth is anything but constant

It is an old truth that men and women sometimes miss what they hate as much as what they love.

It was too bitter a truth even for irony.

The world could bring you poison in a jewelled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn't know which of them it was.

It was surprising how easy it was to think about the unthinkable if you'd had a few glasses of wine on a spring night.