Quotes About Paradox

There are some people who always find beauty makes them feel sadder, which is a very mysterious thing.

Explain me to myself, you'll make me choke on my lunch. Feel sympathy for me, I'll puke monkey blood on your understated shoes.

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

America can be saved only by what it's trying to destroy.

Why are free spirits always so fucking dumb?

It was amazing how often kind-looking people turned out to be crazy. He wondered gravely whether things had reached such bad state that only crazy people attempted commonplace acts of kindness, that the crazy and the kind were one and the same.

Miracles share the landscape with death.

Some good-bad nights I spent, loving my self-hatred.

How could there be a north below a south? Is this what I found confusing?

He lost the paradoxical gift for being separate and alone and yet intimately connected, mind-wired to distant things.

There was something exquisite and poetic about those fucking catastrophes.

What appears good in principle can sometimes fail when introduced to the world. Sometimes, bad products succeed and good products fail. The world is complex.

la paradoja de la tecnología: por lo general, una mayor capacidad funcional se ha de pagar con una mayor complejidad.

An interesting property of slips is that, paradoxically, they tend to occur more frequently to skilled people than to novices. Why? Because slips often result from a lack of attention to the task. Skilled people—experts—tend to perform tasks automatically, under subconscious control. Novices have to pay considerable conscious attention, resulting in a relatively low occurrence of slips.

Make something too secure, and it becomes less secure.

La stessa tecnologia che semplifica la vita offrendo più funzioni in ciascun apparecchio la complica anche rendendo il dispositivo più difficile da imparare e da usare. Questo è il paradosso della tecnologia.

You may not be interested in absurdity, she said firmly, but absurdity is interested in you.

Essays, like poems and stories and novels, marry heaven and hell. Contradiction is the cellular structure of life. Sometimes north dominates, sometimes south—but if the essay doesn't include contraries, however small they be, the essay fails.

To infuse a novel with a significance that speaks to many requires, paradoxically, that you ignore what the public wants and focus instead on what matters to you.

Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment.

We both have our independence and freedom, but we have those things with each other. It's a paradox, but it works. It all reminded me of what my friend Henry Cloud told me, that when two people are entirely and completely separate they are finally compatible to be one. Nobody's self-worth lives inside of another person. Intimacy means we are independently together.

love makes us both strong and weak at the same time. I

Bleakly, Harriet gazed out into the antiseptic gloom. A weight lay upon her, and a darkness. She'd learned things she never knew, things she had no idea of knowing, and yet in a strange way it was the hidden message of Captain Scott: that victory and collapse were sometimes the same thing.

The absurd does not liberate; it binds. —ALBERT CAMUS