Quotes About Paradox

La pureza es un estado negativo y por tanto contrario a la naturaleza.

God is foolish at times, but at least He's a gentleman. Don't you know that?

Soy un elegido de Dios, pues Él castiga a aquel a quien Él ama. Pero que me aspen si es que Él no ha escogido, por lo que se ve, una manera harto extraña de demostrar su amor.

For me, and not only for me, surfing harbors this paradox: a desire to be alone with waves fused to an equal desire to be watched, to perform.

Yeah, it's so popular it's almost legal. The customers are torn between needing someone and wanting to be alone at the same time, which has probably always been the name of that particular game, even before we had the neuroelectronics to enable them to have it both ways.

Wintermute was a simple cube of white light, that very simplicity suggesting extreme complexity.

I have already told you of the sickness and confusion that comes with time travelling. —H. G. WELLS

You're from the future, Mr Netherton? Not exactly, he said. I'm in the future that would result from my not being here. But since I am, it isn't your future. Here.

es una expresión que usamos, más o menos quiere decir que trabajan en los dos extremos. Blanco y negro, ¿me entiendes?

This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it. How is such a thing possible? I'll do my best to explain.

Faith is when you believe something that you know ain't true.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths

He, who was so monumentally intolerant by his very nature, was strangely tolerant of one human condition—a man's morals.

He walked with equipoise, possibly in either city. Schrödinger's pedestrian.

A good fortune may forbode a bad luck, which may in turn disguise a good fortune.

To be damned by the devil is to be truly blessed.

There are two perfect men one dead, and the other unborn.

Knowing yet not knowing is a strange sensation, like being split in two

Love was full of contradictions. Sometimes the person you loved weakened you and sometimes he or she made you a stronger person.

When it hurts and destroys its follower, Love is worse than Hatred.

Las dos proposiciones siguientes son ciertas: (a) Si tuviera la ocasión, Abbott no cambiaría ni uno de los elementos fundamentales de su vida, pero (b) Abbott no soporta su vida.

To think that the wise are not capable of folly is not wise.

Everyone in my village liked U2," I said. "Everyone in my country, maybe. Wouldn't that be funny, if the oil rebels were playing U2 in their trucks. I think everyone was killing everyone else and listening to the same music. Do you know what? The first week I was in the detention center, U2 were number one here too. That is a good trick about this world, Sarah. No one likes each other, but everyone likes U2.

Comedy is tragedy standing on its head with its pants down.