Quotes About Paradox

If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.

Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

Paradox is thus a much deeper and universal concept than the ancients would have dreamed. Rather than an oddity, it is a mainstay of the philosophy of science.

Life feels good if you don't know what it is.

Time is a strange phenomenon that understands the physics of our world, but never the chemistry of it

Sometimes absurd logic can be amusing and heart-touching.

Brian A. McBride, Paradox

Time, as such doesn't travel! It's the paradox & uncertainty inside you that makes it travel.

Most people don't know what they want in their life! What an irony their life has become!

What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the world do not come from the insane but, the sane!

Morality is often very immoral.

In this complex modern world, it is impossible to be simple.

Paradox is the pathos or the passion of philosophy.

It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us in unintelligibility, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous.

People are simple. People are complicated.

Even within perfection, there are flaws. These flaws carry an unattainable beauty, which is indifferent to the human nature.

Sometimes you need to do something bad to do something good.I guess that's the irony of life.

Life is simple. Life is complicated.

To become a pious saint, experience first as as a ruthless killer.

Some topics seem to be nothing but philosophical circles designed to lure the unsuspecting ant to its death.

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.

Poetry is the enemy of the poem.

Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.