Quotes About Paradox

one of the key features of a black hole: different observers have paradoxically different perceptions of the same events. To

I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind of love I would like to have for it.

Life and Death moved simultaneously, and until the very end Life remained life, to the most ridiculous and insipid trifles.

You are cold, while you yourself fan flames. By all means wrap yourself in your despotic furs, there is no one to whom they are more appropriate, cruel goddess of love and of beauty

Especially the doubt, which is in many ways essential to real faith.

It was the eternal conundrum. Time passed too slowly, and then it was over too quickly. Hurry up and die.

Experience itself is convention and we are outside of experience.

Part of the terrible irony of war is that it enlists the best in human nature for purposes of mutual destruction.

The same, yet not the same

A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can't be how the universe works." "In the Order we call it 'inverse profundity.' We've observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries, the less interesting everything gets.

This was a double game: he was trying to save his childhood, to preserve it and trap it in amber, but to do that he was calling on things that partook of the world beyond childhood, whose touch would leave him even less innocent than he already was. What would that make him? Neither a child nor an adult, neither innocent nor wise. Perhaps that is what a monster is.

I thought about what time is, how we're broken every second, we're losing moments all the time, leaking them away like a stuffed animal losing its stuffing, until one day they're gone an we lose everything. Forever. And then, at the same time, we're gaining seconds, moment after moment. Every one is a gift, until at the end of our lives we're sitting on a rich hoard of moments. Rich beyond imaging. Time was both those things at once.

Neither a child nor an adult, neither innocent nor wise. Perhaps that is what a monster is.

In the Order we call it 'inverse profundity.' We've observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries, the less interesting everything gets.

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why am i dying to live, if im just living to die?

People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think that a thing cannot be good and terrible at the same time.

We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?

"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?

unwed mothers nursing unbaptised infants on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

I would love to have the faith to believe that the world was created in seven days... but I have thoughts... and that can really fuck up the faith thing, just ask any Catholic priest.

Belief and disbelief were the same creature within me.