Quotes About Paradox

He had no faith in money, but he'd nervously squirrel it away. Contrary to what is commonly believed, all murderers are men of extreme faith rather than unbelievers.

All is going well, very well, I couldn't ask for anything better— So why do I hate my life?

You frighten me, when you say there isn't time. I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia. But it keeps not ending. So far, so good.

Two sides of the same coin, but which side is which?

The trouble with coins is, when one face is up, the other face is down.

In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on.

The ways of love are strange and hard: The love you want is always barred; The love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.

The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not

A non-materialist. And yet you are unpleasantly fat. A gluttonous ascetic? Such a contradiction.

What good were the rules of time when the rules of magic contradicted them.

Rigg, said Father, you're so smart and so dumb at the same time that it almost takes my breath awway

El problema con las monedas es que cuando una cara está boca arriba, la otra está boca abajo

Watch closely, folks, here it is: Science, the ugly little beast that devours itself!)

You've lost faith in yourself? Isn't that rich? A god who's become a self-atheist!

humans will always act to preserve their own lives—except for the times when they don't.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

Paradox though it may seem - and paradoxes are always dangerous things - it is none the less true that Life imitates art far more than Art imitates life.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon