Quotes About Paradox

Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one

Nature loves to hide.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river, and it's not the same man.

Because it is so unbelievable, the truth often escapes being known.

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Time is a child playing a game of draughts; the kingship is in the hands of a child.

If they are gods, why do you lament them? If you lament them, you must no longer regard them as gods.

Latent structure is master of obvious structure

Under the comb the tangle and the straight path are the same.

The track of writing is straight and crooked.

The unseen harmony is better than the visible

Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one living the others' death and dying the others' life

Just as the river where I step is not the same, and is, so I am as I am not.

Immortals are mortal, mortals are immortal, living the others' death, being dead in the others' life.

The bow (????) is called life (????) but its work is death.

The way upward and the way downward are the same.

The road up and the road down is one and the same

Into the same rivers we both step and do not step; we both are and are not.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Een wijf met een sigaar is als een onderzeeër met een balkon.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

It's strange how spring and autumn are so alike and yet such inversions. You can wake up on a day in either April or October—the air, the temperature, it can all be identical and yet you know there's a difference.

He's too clever to be wise, if that makes any sense. Very