Quotes About Paradox

She was a contradiction like that, you know. The things she wrote down were warmer than her, in person. That sounds like she's dead, he thought. Well, in a way, she is, you know, in a way she is dead. — 'How To Get Away With Suicide

The most profound radicalism is often the most profound conservatism.

La dualidad esta dentro de nosotros todos estamos compuestos de absolutamente si y absolutamente no, de norte y sur, oscuridad y luz, todos somos héroes y todo lo contrario, podemos volar y caer.

Paradójicamente, a partir de que el hombre adjudicó a la materia el papel que le correspondía a la Conciencia como origen de todas las cosas, perdió la posibilidad de explicar su propia existencia, cuando su motivación era precisamente entenderla.

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

Tragedy is strange. It takes away. And it gives too" -Haley

The ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in. Thus in practice, every liberation increases the sense of oppression. Nor is the paradox merely in the mind: the laws enacted to secure the rights of every person and group, by creating protective boundaries, create new barriers.

Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same time they degrade it by trying to get it free of charge and free of work.

I rightly pass for an atheist.

Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.

The logical aspect of your life and the experiential dimension of your life are diametrically opposite to each other.

Uno es un grupo de contradicciones, intelectuales y emotivas. Solamente tú no eres una contradicción: siempre te quiero

No hay lugar para el místico que soy dentro del ateo que represento.

I look at this place (Antigua), I look at these people (Antiguans), and I cannot tell whether I was brought up by, and so come from, children, eternal innocents, or artists who have not yet found eminence in a world too stupid to understand, or lunatics who have made their own lunatic asylum, or an exquisite combination of all three.

How do you get to be the sort of victor who can claim to be the vanquished also?

I'm a conundrum. Or an enigma. I forget which.

John is a bad boy, but a good man.

What can be shown, cannot be said.

So here is the paradox, freedom is dependence upon God. It is a paradox, but it is absolutely clear. The human being – the concrete human person, me, you – once we were not, now we are, and tomorrow will no longer be: thus we depend. And either we depend upon the flux of our material antecedents, and are consequently slaves of the powers that be, or we depend upon What lies at the origin of the movement of all things, beyond them, which is to say, God.

Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.

Where do you find more eroticism than in the cloister of a convent?

I am the only one who hasn't changed. I remain Catholic and atheist, thank God.

Imposible beber sin fumar

Thank God I'm an atheist!