Quotes About Paradox

Basically, everything we do is bad for something, and if we were to follow all the advice on the subject the only really healthy activity would be to be dead.

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

She looked pretty lively for a girl obsessed with death.

Everything in the world cooks down to two. Either- or, if-then, yes-no, night-day, good-bad. You all believe in twos so much I wonder if any of you can count to three.

Look at this leper accusing another leper of leprosy.

Sure good is good, but good is something that nobody know. Good is a ghost. You can't get pocket money from good. Jamaica better off bad, because that type of bad work.

It was just one of the many absurdities she discovered being married to Alexander Cameron: having everything she had ever wanted yet having nothing at all.

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

I don't necessarily agree with everything that I say.

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

de la necesidad lampedusiana de que todo cambie para que todo siga igual.

Mortal love is but the licking of honey from thorns…" There was laughter again then, and applause, and a cry, "Well sung!

Ugh, this was going to be fun, in the not at all fun sense.

I hate caring about stuff. But apparently once you start, you can't just stop.

Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black. We can't tell if it will survive us. But we can be sure that it's the last thing to go.

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

Well, love was no fading violet; love was a weed that flourished in the dark. Has anyone ever explained it?

Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

There is a paradox here: the purpose of a great number of the things we call 'works of art' was and is religious. But when we encounter them in the circumstances for which they were made our reaction – or at least mine – is to feel awkward, a bit embarrassed at being there under false pretences. This is, perhaps, the mirror image of the bewilderment felt by a true believer at finding a sacred image in a museum, lined up with pictures of landscapes and kitchen tables.

Paradoxical as it sounds, many intellectuals prefer life in the mud to life in clear water.

the paradox is that God must destroy in us, all illusions of righteousness before he can make us righteous

Sometimes the curses of the godless sound better than the hallelujahs of the pious.

a quite novel kind of grammar and logic, according to which what is something is nothing

Therefore, when some say good works are forbidden when we preach faith alone, it is as if I said to a sick man: "If you had health, you would have the use of your limbs; but without health the works of your limbs are nothing"' and he wanted to infer that I had forbidden the works of all his limbs.