Quotes About Paradox

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

Poetry dovetails contradictions.

It was not Death, for I stood up, And all the Dead, lie down—It was not Night, for all the BellsPut out their Tongues, for Noon.

Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

Which is stronger, politics or love? is like asking, Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling? They are two sides of the same thing.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

The only thing certain is nothing is certain.

Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

There are parodies of non-existent things.

If negative meant positive we'd be heroes.

If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.

I think it is optimistic and positive - it's quite contradictory in that sense - from the lyrics. Until you actually read them, maybe they can seem contradictory.

If all we had were roses, would the thorns then be beautiful?

Simplicity is complex. It's never simple to keep things simple. Simple solutions require the most advanced thinking.

When one thing becomes TRUE for you the PARADOX becomes a BLIND SPOT!

A thousand minus one is never a thousand

Irony of the world is that it wants to simplify the complexity and complicate the simplicity.

Say the negative and do the opposite.

I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things like money, contracts and books are made up of soft paper.

Sometimes impossible things are true things.

Always, there are some goodness in bad and something bad in goodness. It is the balance of life.

To be honest one must be inconsistent.

You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.