Quotes About Paradox

Life's so ironic. It takes sadness to know what happiness is, noise to appreciate silence & absence to value presence.

Don't you see that Americans need the anti-American? While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also better to be hated than ignored.

A person's strength was always his weakness, and vice versa.

breathtakingly lewd exhibition of modesty.

A person's strength was always his weakness, and vice versa. The weakness was there to be seen if one could see it.

What makes us human is that we're the only creatures on this planet that can fuck ourselves

Don't you see that the Americans need the anti-American?

Isn't it funny that in a society that values freedom above all things, things that are free are not valued?

Ah contradiction! The perpetual body odor of humanity!

And there you have the absurdity.

Give me some good advice and I promise you that I will not follow it.

Somewhere something is good for somebody as well as bad for someone else.

How else should it be done then?", was always the immediate question. The answer is simple: "Exactly in the opposite way that it is done today!

No sense makes sense." Charles Manson

The necessary result is that the person who claims to believe both divine sovereignty and human freedom believes neither.

Plus elle disparait plus elle apparait. [The more she disappears the more she appears.]

You can't stand having people around you, but then you go completely nuts when you're left all alone.

It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.

As you say, I can feel it and I can smell it, but for me it's still a black rose.

Men are trapped in a different dichotomy, that which gives them a hard-on must remain a problem. Above all, no reconciliation. Because a peculiar thing about men is that they tend to despise that which they desire, as well as despising themselves for the physical manifestation of that desire.

The particularity of the cross] fragments our attempt to hold it as an integral whole, administer and control it at our whim. This is what scandal means; it disrupts an expected fulfillment and enclosure of meaning.

Nothing is true; everything is permitted

Ilustra esta declaración con las palabras de Jacques Madaule: "Sé que moriré, pero no lo creo".2

In this lucid and flexible pattern only one thing remained always stationary, but this fallacy went unnoticed by Martha. The blind spot was the victim. The victim showed no signs of life before being deprived of it. If anything, the corpse which had to be moved and handled before burial seemed more active than its biological predecessor.