Quotes About Paradox

Responding to a question about remarks attributed to him that he did not think were his: "I really didn't say everything I said."

He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends.

This is getting funny, but there ain't nobody laughing.

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem.

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.

There is always something Right in something that is Wrong and something Wrong in something that is Right.

I feel I am free but I know I am not.

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, he wants to reestablish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.

I smoke and I drink and every time I blink I have a tiny dream but as bad as I am I'm proud of the fact that I'm worse than I seem

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.

Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

It must be a cruel joke of nature that people who are so bad for us, make us feel so good.

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more.

God cheats men into living on by hiding how blest it is to die

We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.

Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.

No matter how much water a sink takes on, it never lives up to its name. The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink.