Quotes About Paradox

Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....

Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful, but the beauty is grim.

Nothing is as it seems. Black can appear white when the light is blinding but white loses all luster at the faintest sign of darkness.

Riegl also solved a paradox of academic doctrine, wedded to the ideal: its tendency to summon its own subversion by reality, or by lowly life. Now that the story line is the movement from touch-based art to vision-based art, the future is open-ended, for art can always be further intellectualized without worrying about a surfeit of sublimity or transcendence, just as low subject matter does not threaten to drag art back into the weeds of practical life.

Joy, anger, grief, delight, worry, regret, fickleness, inflexibility, modesty, willfulness, candor, insolence—music from empty holes, mushrooms springing up in dampness, day and night replacing each other before us, and no one knows where they sprout from. Let it be! Let it be!

Attacking the ostensible paradox of altering previously recorded historical events, Robert Heinlein's short story All You Zombies remains the ultimate, absurdly extreme, example for most devotees of this genre.1 Traversing the

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it

Can anything be more absurd than that the nearer we are to our journeys end, we should lay in the more provision for it?

But even a thornbush grows a flower sometimes. And sometimes the loveliest flower has poison at its heart.

It's hard to imagine a bigger desert oasis than Las Vegas.

Dans la stupidité il est un sérieux qui, mieux orienté, pourrait multiplier la somme des chefs-d'oeuvre.

Als conformist leef ik, probeer ik te leven, door na te bootsen, uit respect voor de regels van het spel, uit afkeer van originaliteit. Gelatenheid van een automaat: de schijn van hartstocht veinzen en er in het geheim om lachen; je naar de conventies plooien om ze heimelijk te verwerpen; in alle registers voorkomen, maar zonder residentie in de tijd; je gezicht redden terwijl het nodig is het te verliezen...

I have followed only one idea all the way--the idea that everything man achieves necessarily turns against him.

Para um escritor, o progresso em direcção ao desprendimento e à libertação é um desastre sem precedentes: ele, mais do que ninguém, precisa dos seus defeitos: se triunfa sobre eles, está perdido. Ele que se abstenha portanto de se tornar melhor, pois, se o conseguir, arrepender-se-à amargamente.

il mio merito non è di essere totalmente inefficiente ma di aver voluto esserlo

Para usted que ya no la tiene, la libertad es todo. Para nosotros que sí, es meramente una ilusión.

Neither one of us talks, the way people sometimes don't when they are happy – but as soon as I have this thought, I realise its opposite is also true.

I am finding myself: it's deadly because only death concludes me. But I bear it until the end. I'll tell you a secret: life is deadly. I'll have to interrupt everything to tell you this: death is the impossible and intangible. Death is just future to such an extent that there are those who cannot bear it and commit suicide. It's as life said the following: and there simply was no following.

Things went somehow so good that were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting.

Ne olduÄŸumu bilmediÄŸimden, "olmamak" gerçeÄŸe en yak?n olduÄŸum yerdi: en az?ndan madalyonun öteki yüzü kontrolümde: en az?ndan "-mamak"a sahiptim, tersime sahiptim. O zaman benim için neyin iyi olduÄŸunu bilmiyordum; benim için kötü olana da böylece ?s?nm?? oldum.

As coisas estavam de algum modo tão boas que podiam se tornar muito ruins porque o que amadurece plenamente pode apodrecer.

Do zero ao infinito vou caminhando sem parar. Mas ao mesmo tempo tudo é tão fugaz. Eu sempre fui e imediatamente não era mais.

Madness borders the cruelest good sense.