Quotes About Paradox

Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.

David Brion Davis's The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (1966), explored at length the paradox of slavery and freedom in human history, noting that John Locke and other advocates of liberty at times supported the institution of human bondage.38 Other historians have noted the extent to which the call for freedom often assumed the form of a rejection of servitude, even among slaveholders themselves.39

As the man said, for every complex problem there's a simple solution, and it's wrong.

Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.

By saying not to worry he says something worrisome.

A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.

Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.

All general statements are false.

Everyone wants to be accepted by a world that is unacceptable

A book is a beautifully written troll

The king was pregnant.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

Self-awareness is a trait that not only makes us human but also paradoxically makes us want to be more than merely human. As I said in my BBC Reith Lectures, "Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don't feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence

So here is the greatest irony of all: that the self that almost by definition is entirely private is to significant extent a social construct.

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

If I didn't like her so much, I'd hate her.

I don't know how it is in mathematics, but in life the best proof for something lies in its opposite.

La guerra es la fiesta más cruel, pero es siempre un festejo. Hay que adornarse con las mejores galas para danzar con la muerte.

Recently, everything around me felt familiar yet amiss, like the first time you ride in the back seat of your own car.

So even in hell, there are clowns.

For where there is heaven, there can also be hell.

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

How come no one ever warned you that life would be fraught with mixed messages? That success, for example, is just another word for a lot more work? That what's called freedom is only the right to do what's allowed? And you'd derive a lot more pride from your friend's achievements than from your own?