Quotes About Paradox

This story is true. Of course, there are many lies therein and most of it did not happen, but it's all true. In that sense it is deeply religious, perhaps even biblical.

God's blessings, however, aren't always bigger, better, and beautiful. In fact, I truly believe that God gifts His chosen leaders with a very unusual blessing. You might even call it a weird blessing because most of the time we call it...a burden.

Like some strange little religion all its own, the one thing that makes the whole system work is the one thing that it robs you of - faith.

London as cell, jail, and favor. London meant "not living in England while living in England,

As Picasso said with his typical oxymoronic wit, "It takes a very long time to become young.

To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.

Contradiction is an inseparable part of the human condition, and that suffices as a source of miraculousness.

If you can't laugh at the dark, you shouldn't grin like the Sphinx. Understand?

There are only two types of people in this world; people who hate clowns, and clowns.

From my point of view, humour and irony include tragedy; they're two sides of the same coin.

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

It's nothing for you to worry about." "Whenever someone says that," Pandora said, "it always means the opposite. Along with 'It's only a scratch' or 'Worse things happen at sea.' " "Or," Clara added glumly, 'I'm only going out for a pint.

the young Sun's energy output was probably about 70 percent of what it is today. With the Sun's initially lower luminosity, even the water that did form wouldn't have been in a liquid phase without some other explanation—a quandary known as "The Faint Sun Paradox.

You're also collecting an archive of the absurdity of value.

one of the paradoxes of life. You can't have it all. You can have some of this and some of that or all of this and none of that. We make the trade-offs we think are best at the time.

Well, that's one of the paradoxes of life. You can't have it all. You can have some of this and some of that or all of this and none of that. We make the trade-offs we think are best at the time

Well, that's one of the paradoxes of life. You can't have it all. You can have some of this and some of that or all of this and none of that.

Well, that's one of the paradoxes of life. You can't have it all. You can have some of this or some of that or all of this and none of that. We make trade-offs we think are best at the time.

I dislike change of any kind. But paradoxically, something in me – a kind of information-hunger – seeks and requires it. If sharks stop moving, they die. Kaitlin once said my brain was like that.

I know nothing, I understand nothing, I am unaware of myself. I am in love, but with whom I do not know. My heart is at the same time both full and empty of love. (Attar)

The locus of the modern struggle with its enemy of death is clearly the body (not mind, society, or the afterworld). The body is the site of tragedy, the ultimate unresolvable paradox, for it is at once the source of life and of death.

It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.

Let us talk about oxymoron, common sense, for instance.