Quotes About Paradox

Proprio non so come dirlo in modo che suoni veritiero: di verità ne esistono sempre come minimo due.

105 years old: she wouldn't be alive today even if she hadn't died.

The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.

I love you Aurora Eden you are so unpredictably predictable!

Le spine della rosa sono nacoste dal fiore: the thorns of the rose are hidden by the bloom.

Don't be fooled by strength you can see," he said at last. "Yahweh often hides His power in the simple things, the weak things, and so His strength seems foolish in man's eyes.

I am a connoisseur of fine irony. 'Tis a bit like fine wine, but it has a better bite.

How could a woman who was that beautiful, who smelled that good, who had such perfectly lovely teeth and bright eyes, be so thoroughly, completely, entirely, stark raving mad?" ~ Robert Cameron

The one thing that was one hundred percent assured was that nothing was one hundred percent assured

The bayou certainly has a wild beauty of its own, although it is undoubtedly hostile to man," Richard Duvall mused. "But then, many things that are quite beautiful are hostile to man." "Like women?" Shiloh suggested.

The desire to catch, as Bonnard hoped, the PASSING MOMENT is antithetical to being in the moment. The photographer is an observer to others' moments. The Picture People have dedicated themselves to this paradox, and consign themselves on either side of the equation.

I'm completely sane except when I'm the opposite of that.

My work is a game, a very serious game.

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

Por que bonita, se coxa? Por que coxa, se bonita?

The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.

What was a zero anyway? A zero signified nothing, all it did was tell you nothing about nothing. Still, wasn't zero also something meaningful, a number in and of itself? In jianpu notation, zero indicated a caesura, a pause or rest of indeterminate length. Did time that went uncounted, unrecorded, still qualify as time? If zero was both everything and nothing, did an empty life have exactly the same weight as a full life? Was zero like the desert, both finite and infinite?

I know, now, how I would answer Chiron. I would say: there is no answer. Whichever you choose, you are wrong.

But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another.

Whichever you choose, you are wrong.

If we remove the dulling effects of the nineteen centuries that had passed, and make ourselves contemporaries with Christ and his little band of apostles, we might restore the difficulty, the trauma, the great paradox of Christ's appearance which requires us to fit together both a divine and a human nature, the creator of the universe and the babe born in a manger.

I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.

Think of what it was they were applauding," he said at last. "My message today was a message of death for our young men. How strange it seems to applaud that.

A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.