Quotes About Paradox

If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.

Une cour des miracles dans un labyrinthe de luxe.

Bien écrire le médiocre94 » : cette formule en forme d'oxymore concentre et condense tout son programme esthétique.

On est en effet dans un monde économique à l'envers : l'artiste ne peut triompher sur le terrain symbolique qu'en perdant sur le terrain économique (au moins à court terme), et inversement (au moins à long terme).

C'est cette économie paradoxale qui, de manière aussi très paradoxale, confère tout leur poids aux propriétés économiques héritées, et en particulier à la rente, condition de la survie en l'absence de marché.

Reason and love are sworn enemies.

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

Losing your faith is an essential part of having a three-dimensional, vivid, vibrant faith.

I think one of the biggest sleepers that people are going to be able to dig into later is 'Fermi Paradox,' it's the song before 'Exist.' To me it's got the coolest, it's just so bizarre because it's got one of the most melodic vocal melodies, but we put it over a black metal blast beats.

If I've got a confidence problem, it's that my self-esteem is entirely too high.

's one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling.

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

So basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do.

I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.

There are no true answers, just shades of grey, coincidence, and circumstance.

the most general sense," the historian Allen C. Guelzo observed, "the paradox of Lincoln's fatalism falls into a pattern that has reapppeared throughout modern Western history, and it arises from the peculiar tendency of determinists, from Oliver Cromwell to Karl Marx, to preach divine or material inevitability at one moment and then turn into the most avowed revolutionary activists at the next.

For the thoughtful believer, then, there is nothing more certain than the reality of uncertainty, nothing more natural than doubt, which is perhaps thirty seconds younger than faith itself (And even that approximation may be giving faith too much of a headstart).

like sticking a red nose on a cadaver and calling it Ronald McDonald.

Cause if there's one thing Islamic terrorists don't have is....(seriously thinking about it)....%#@&!

Being dead's only a problem if you know you're dead, which you never do because you're dead!

The odd truth about Alfred was that love, for him, was a matter not of approaching but of keeping away.

To be so vigorous and healthy and yet so nothing.

How strange it began to seem that cars have bodies that never are supposed to touch, a disaster if they do.

Madness calls literature's bluff by going beyond it and falling short of it at the same time.