Quotes About Paradox

If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?

Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.

I love you as much as you love me... So if you hate me, it works out perfectly.

It is paradoxical but nonetheless true that the nearer man comes to his goal to make his life easy and abundant, the more he undermines the foundations of a meaningful existence.

My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.

Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic.

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

In terms of long-term durable storage, the human mind, paradoxically, is pretty good, but it's very fragile.

One of the first times that I went into a book store and saw a bunch of my books, my impulse was to put them all under my coat and run away so that no one else could see them, even though, of course, I wanted everyone to see them.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

America has always had an apocalyptic strain. Yet it also seems to believe that if, or when, The End comes, it will still come out on top.

The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

I have to say, though, it's a little strange doing both because Durant is very straight and stern and austere.

I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

Prepare for surprises in the second part, where everything changes so that much can remain the same.

What wonderful minds we have, even though they don't seem to get us anywhere, or make us happy.

It would be awful. It would be brilliant.

An unguarded strength is a double weakness.

The whole thing, said the President, was a paradox … of trying to meet the threat to our values and institutions by methods which themselves endangered these institutions. Here was an existential dilemma of the cold war: using undemocratic methods to defend American democracy. But Eisenhower believed that the ends would justify the means when the issue was national survival.