Quotes About Paradox

Well as for Ian Rush, he's perfectly fit, apart, that is, from his physical fitness

I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you're hungry for power.

Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.

Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.

You can't be happy that fire cooks your food and be mad it burns your fingertips.

Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness.

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

A paradox arises: the only way to meaning in freedom is through boundaries. The only way that boundaries make any sense at all is through freedom.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Ideology today is unfreedom which you sincerely personally experience as freedom.

It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it is a campaign not just against other people, but against ourselves.

It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable calling myself a writer—I am merely a word criminal.

The only truth is that we cannot speak the truth . The only acceptable viewpoint is that we cannot express a viewpoint.

He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

You don't know anything about pain until you've seen your own baby drowned in a tub... and you definitely don't know anything about how to wash a baby.

Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which by now has ceased to be funny.

Analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog. Nobody laughs and the frog dies.

In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs.

Why is it, when a door is open it's ajar, but when a jar is open, it's not a door?