Quotes About Paradox

As long as I live, I am a mortal man, but when I die, by ceasing to be a man I also cease to be mortal, I am no longer capable of dying, and my impending death horrifies me because I see it as it is: no longer death but the impossibility of dying.

If this world is a poem, it is not because we see the meaning of it at first but on the strength of its chance occurrences and paradoxes.

W)e must - precisely in order to see the world and to grasp it as a paradox - rupture our familiarity with it, and this rupture can teach us nothing except the unmotivated springing forth of the world.

It is a paradox to not want to infringe upon the will of the loved being. To love is to accept undergoing the other's influence and also to exercise influence on the other.

Socrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept it.

Circularity--a dangerous word. Circularity of Heraclitus, yes: to go in one direction is truly to go in the other. A thick identity there, which truly contains difference.

The paradox of history...is that a contingent future, once it enters the present, appears real and even necessary.

There is a paradox here: the paradox of a total being which is, in advance, everything which we can be and do, and yet which would not be it without us, and which thus needs to be augmented by our own being. Our relation with being involves a double sense, the first according to which we belong to it, the second according to which it belongs to us.

The negative has its positive side, the positive its negative, and it is precisely because each has its contrary within itself that they are capable of passing into one another, and perpetually play the role of warring brothers in history.

Heraclitus says that Nature is a child at play; it gives meaning, but in the manner of a child who is playing, and this meaning is never total.

poppy in wine.

Time is but a phantom dagger That motion lifts to slay itself.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

Najve?a mudrost u životu je da ?ovjek prona?e pravu ludost.

sve ima svoju suprotnu stranu i ljudski duh, živ i uznemiren poželi da prevrne svaku stvar da joj vidi nali?je pitaju?i se da to možda nije lice

The city was a paradox, though maybe it had always been one. You could have an excellent life here, even as everything disintegrated. The city at that moment was not a place that anyone would remember with nostalgia, except for the fact that in the midst of all this, if you played it right, your money could double, and you could buy a big apartment with triple-glazed windows that overlooked the chaos.

sometimes a mindfuck was a satisfying and productive fuck after all.

The city was a paradox, though maybe it had always been one. You could have an excellent life here, even as everything disintegrated.

Sometimes it feels like life's about understanding how much opposites meet. Kill to cure, poison to immunize, sacrifice to save.

Yes, she was his angel. But can't you guess, my love? She was his demon too.

Strange, don't you think, that nuns and monks make the most sensual food and drink?

I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.

I know everything and nothing about him all at the same time.

You look gorgeous, Elle, and you don't act like a gorgeous woman does." "I don't? How do I act?" "You act like an angel. But you fuck like a deomon. Don't you.