Quotes About Paradox

I believe the influence of Kierkegaard on Camus is underestimated. I believe Dennis Gabor may very well have been the Antichrist. I believe Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror. I believe, with Hegel, that transcendence is absorption.

hindsight, the illusion appears arational, almost literally fantastic: it would be like being able both to lie and to trust other people at the same time.

That a little-mentioned paradox of Substance addiction is: that once you are sufficiently enslaved by a Substance to need to quit the Substance in order to save your life, the enslaving Substance has become so deeply important to you that you will all but lose your mind when it is taken away from you.

sometimes in the same week. There might even be—though

Nosotros, turistas, podemos disfrutar de nuestros sentimientos a favor de los derechos animales con las barrigas llenas de tocino.

I have dickered over trinkets with malnourished children. I have learned what it is to become afraid of one's own cabin toilet. I have now heard—and am powerless to describe—reggae elevator music.

Remember that in the midst of that which is most tragic there is always the comic and in the midst that which is most evil there is always much good.

The most interesting thing about the world is its fantastic and unpsychoanalyzed character, its wretched and gallant personality, its horrible idiocy and its magnificent intelligence, its unbelievable cruelty and its equally unbelievable kindness, its gorilla stupor, its canary cheerfulness, its thundering divinity, and its whimpering commonness.

This was such bad writing that it was good.

Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)

Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this.

If I were to kiss you then go to hell, I would. So then I can brag with the devils I saw heaven without ever entering it.

So fair and foul a day I have not seen.

Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.

I have no way and therefore want no eyes I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen our means secure us, and our mere defects prove our commodities.

Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose it from their bond, And so, by hoping more, they have but less; Or, gaining more, the profit of excess Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain, That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.

To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life.

I am in this earthly world, where to do harm is often laudable, to do good sometime accounted dangerous folly.

I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.

Who can be wise, amazed, temp'rate, and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.

All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise

Still better, and worse.

When the hurlyburly's done, When the battle's lost and won.

This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, this Senior Junior, giant dwarf...Cupid.