Quotes About Paradox

Yo escribo este manifiesto para mostrar que pueden ejecutarse juntas las acciones opuestas, en una sola y fresca respiración; yo estoy en contra de la acción; a favor de la continua contradicción, y también de la afirmación, no estoy ni a favor ni en contra y no lo explico porque odio el sentido común.

Machig merged the two into a single word, god-demon, indicating that gods and demons are two sides of the same coin, that our hopes and fears are inextricably locked together.

There is something so powerful about a person who in one moment can be confident enough to confront a client about a sensitive personal issue, and then in the next moment humble themselves and take a position of servitude. It's the paradoxical nature of it all that makes it work.

Sounds crazy and counterintuitive, I know, but it is true.

for very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs of the contrary...

Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.

it's wrong to be right; it's right to be wrong.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love." Mother Teresa

They were worlds apart in everything but the simplicity of their humanity, and so they were really not apart at all.

The universe loves irony even more than it loves futility.

The paradox was more likely that an excess of money was the problem—or one of them; that, and a government run by thieves. But I was just learning, and I thought, as one does in such circumstances: Maybe things will improve farther up the road.

Nothing is stranger than being in a fairly bad place and being told that another place-your destination-is a great deal worse.

She considered herself fortunate to count enough in his eyes for him to derive pleasure from offending her, as believers give thanks to God for humbling them. But

Pero nada le ayudaba tanto como el silencio, excepto las cadenas. Las cadenas y el silencio, que hubieran debido atarla al fondo de sí misma, ahogarla, estrangularla, por el contrario la liberaban.

People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.

The happier people can be, the unhappier they are.

God hides the fires of hell within paradise.

If we are alone, we become more alone. Life is strange

JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.

Nothing will behave in the logical way you have come to expect.

There were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. [...] People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same

Je glücklicher die Menschen sein können, desto unglücklicher werden sie.

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong, my dear', said her father, looking at the clock. 'Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Nothing in its essence is one way or the other.