Quotes About Paradox

As for that morality of mine, the harsh glory of being alive is horror itself.

I went to a fortune-teller who told me about all kinds of good things that were about to happen to me, and on the way home in the taxi I thought it'd be really funny if a taxi hit me and ran me over and I died after hearing all those good things

Somos livres, e este é o inferno.

And none of this necessarily has any bearing on the issue of the existence or non-existence of a God. What I'm saying is that the thought of the man and the way this thinking-feeling can reach an extreme degree of incommunicability - that, without sophism or paradox, is at the same time, for that man, the point of greatest communication. He communicates with himself.

Another is the paradox of media reports, which transform terrible events into a form of nightly entertainment while pretending to inform.

I hate travelling and explorers. Yet here I am proposing to tell the story of my expeditions.

El desencanto es un oxímoron, una contradicción que el intelecto no puede resolver y que sólo la poesía puede expresar y custodiar

Time is fixed and time is flexible. It is an invention by man and the curse of man. We all need more time.

They say marriages are made in heaven. But so is thunder and lightning

They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.

It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

Honesty can be a dirty gift.

Prostia, dup? cum spune Pyrrhon, nu-i deloc mai prejos decât înÈ›elepciunea, de care nu se deosebeÈ™te prin nimic.

Aspasia and Xantippe in one. I

The immortals are mortal, the mortals immortal, each living in the other's death and dying in the other's life.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

For when is death not within ourselves?… Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old.

The road up and the road down is one and the same. (???? ??? ???? ??? ??? ????) —Fragment 60

All things come into being by conflict of opposites.

Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.

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