Quotes About Paradox

Most people's sense of dignity and self-worth is caught up in working for a living. Most people hate their jobs. We might refer to this as "the paradox of modern work.

Just as the invention of new forms of industrial automation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries had the paradoxical effect of turning more and more of the world's population into full-time industrial workers, so has all the software designed to save us from administrative responsibilities in recent decades ultimately turned us all into part or full-time administrators.

Liberty grew because it served the interests of power. This apparent paradox was the core of Western identity.

woman who claimed to want only the best for me, and yet she gave birth to me!

Non smetto di stupirmi per come quest'arida vita abbia improvvisamente deciso di mostrarmi il suo seno prosperoso.

It's nice because success has allowed me to have a blast on stage, to be in the studio with amazing people, but I find it all a bit bizarre.

In perennial Absence you see mystery, and in perennial Presence you see appearance. Though the two are one and the same, once they arise, they differ in name.

it is possible for the same thing both to be and not to be.

It is important to realise that two conflicting statements can both be equally true depending on the level from which you observe the same situation.

Maturity is when you accept the fact that two contradictory ideas can exist together.

If we frame every situation in terms of right and wrong, we never have to wrestle with complexity; if we define the world in narrow bands of black and white, we don't have to parse out endless shades of gray.

To be alive, Professor Sharif, means not being completely consistent.

Decidability is impossible. We are back in the land of paradox, with Epimenides declaring that he is a liar and Bertrand Russell upsetting Frege's applecart

If a man says 'I am lying' we say that it follows that he is not lying, from which it follows that he is lying and so on. Well, so what? You can go on like that until you were black in the face. Why not? It doesn't matter." For Turing, it did matter—not in some abstract or ideal sense but because he believed that hidden contradictions could result in things "going wrong.

When you think about flying, it's nuts really. Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700 miles an hour and you're sitting there drinking Diet Pepsi and eating peanuts. It just doesn't make any sense.

You have my word as a gentleman." [The other man remarks that he is not a gentleman and he retorts] "Then you have my word as a scoundrel, which, I know, opens up a rather confusing paradox that I have neither the time nor inclination to disentangle.

Literature is mostly about having sex and not having children. Life is the other way around

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

If you believe in Odin and Thor, people laugh themselves to death. While it's okay to believe in a man who turned water into wine, and walked on water

The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't really want Him most of the time.

I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.