Quotes About Paradox

truth is rarely pure and never simple.

He was like a common gardener walking with a rose.

He played with the idea and grew wilful; tossed it into the air and transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy and winged it with paradox. The praise of folly, as he went on, soared into a philosophy, and philosophy herself became young

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Sono così intelligente che a volte non capisco una sola parola di quel che sto dicendo.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. dup

We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

He says things that annoy me. He gives me good advice.

I'm so clever, I don't understand half of the things I'm saying.

The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it. Women

Humanity takes itself too seriously.

The dividing line forms-fashioned from: Dragon's tears Missed years Overcome fears The fire and ice paradox Seen with True Sight Darkness does not always equate to evil Light does not always bring good

It would seem to be an inexorable law of Nature that no man shall shine at both ends. If he has a high forehead and a thirst for wisdom, his fox-trotting (if any) shall be as the staggerings of the drunken; while, if he is a good dancer, he is nearly always petrified from the ears upward.

I love you only because it's you the one I love; I hate you deeply, and hating you Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.

Tell me, is the rose naked or is that her only dress? Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots? Who hears the regrets of the thieving automobile? Is there anything in the world sadder than a train standing in the rain?

You must know that I do not love and that I love you, because everything alive has its two sides; a word is one wing of silence, fire has its cold half. I love you in order to begin to love you, to start infinity again and never to stop loving you: that's why I do not love you yet. I love you, and I do not love you, as if I held keys in my hand: to a future of joy- a wretched, muddled fate- My love has two lives, in order to love you. -Sonnet XLIV

My love has two lifetimes to love you. That's how I can love you when I don't, and still love you when I do.

Why is it so hard, the sweetness of the heart of the cherry? Is it because it must die or because it must carry on?

III Tell me, is the rose naked or is that her only dress? Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots? Who hears the regrets of the thieving automobile? Is there anything in the world sadder than a train standing in the rain?

Sabrás que no te amo y que te amo puesto que de dos modos es la vida, la palabra es un ala de silencio, el fuego tiene una mitad de frío. Yo te amo para comenzar a amarte, para recomenzar el infinito y para no dejar de amarte nunca: por eso no te amo todavía. Te amo y no te amo como si tuviera en mis manos las llaves de la dicha y un incierto destino desdichado. Mi amor tiene dos vidas para amarte. Por eso te amo cuando no te amo y por eso te amo cuando te amo.

You should know that I don't love you and that I love you.

Eu te amo para começar a amar-te, para recomeçar o infinito e para não deixar de amar-te nunca: por isso não te amo ainda. Te amo e não te amo como se tivesse em minhas mãos as chaves da fortuna e um incerto destino desafortunado. Meu amor tem duas vidas para amar-te. Por isso te amo quando não te amo e por isso te amo quando te amo.

I want to live like a poor man with lots of money.