Quotes About Paradox

The Man With Two Faces

Life is my nightmare now, and paradoxically, my dreams have become escapes.

Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than submit to the desolation of an empty abundance.

As one American major said, in a successful attempt at attaining history, "We had to destroy Ben Tre in order to save it."

It is one of the great ironies of my life that only when it became virtually impossible for me to keep my body from moving would I find the peace, security, and spiritual strength to stand in one place. I couldn't be still until I could—literally—no longer keep still.

Ironically, those with the least to say usually say the most and the most outwardly religious were often the most theologically unsophisticated.

The human soul is a living paradox—neither a predetermined personality nor a completely open possibility. The point in this life is not simply to "become somebody," but to become who we were each intended to be when we first entered this world. For each of us has the most to give and contributes most meaningfully when we become who we were intended to be from the beginning. That is the inside story and the hidden message that has been etched upon each soul.

they immersed themselves paradoxically in vision-directed reality testing: no rose-colored glasses, no blind spots, no positive thinking. Ruthless attention to reality was the common path to attaining their visions.

nothing is black and white except for mathematics and pandas.

There's plenty of serious stuff that works to cord the muscles of literary merit. But

I am neither good, nor bad, neither angel nor devil, I am a man, I am a vampire.

The two that is one the one that is all. One to save the world, the other to destroy it.

an important, paradoxical truth: it is only by embracing the artificial that we can save what's natural.

To experience something, you must be alive, so we cannot personally experience death. Yet we know it is real because every one of the hundred billion people who lived before us is gone. That presents us with something of a paradox.

Fizikçilerin atomlardan olu?an ?eylerin iç derinliklerinde bulduklar? o yeni ve garip dünya, Cartes ve Marco Polo'nun ayak basm?? oldu?u yerlerden çok daha büyüleyiciydi. Bu denli heyecan uyand?rmas?n?n nedeni bu yeni dünyayla ilgili her ?eyin geçerli mant?k ve sa?duyuya ters dü?mesiydi.

He lifted his shirt, and on his back was the White Rabbit, wearing his waistcoat and looking at his watch. It was just like the illustration from the book. Only standing next to him, back-to-back, was another White Rabbit wearing a leather motercycle jacket and boots and smoking a cigar.

Everybody hates you and that`s why I love you.

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens.

La liberté, à titre personnel, j'étais plutôt contre; il est amusant de constater que ce sont toujours les adversaires de la liberté qui se trouvent, à un moment ou à un autre, en avoir le plus besoin.

Az irodalom mélységesen fogalmi m?vészet (...) Semmit sem lehet állítani, tagadni, relativizálni, kigúnyolni a fogalmak segítsége nélkül, szavak nélkül. Innen fakad az irodalmi tevékenység meglepÅ' robosztussága: az irodalom megtagadhatja magát, elpusztíthatja magát, lehetetlennek nyilváníthatja magát, miközben mégis önmaga marad.

Hidden all day in impenetrable black burkas, rich Saudi women transformed themselves by night into birds of paradise with their corsets, their see-through bras, their G-strings with multicolored lace and rhinestones. They were exactly the opposite of Western women, who spent their days dressed up and looking sexy to maintain their social status, then collapsed in exhaustion once they got home, abandoning all hope of seduction in favor of clothes that were loose and shapeless.

Este o senza?ie stranie: s? sim?i cum via?a ?i se schimb? total; e suficient s? stai pe loc, s? nu faci nimic, s? percepi senza?ia de schimbare.

Es obvio que la vida no tiene sentido. Pero tampoco la muerte.

Les chrétiens ont du mal en général, avec l'absurde, ça n'entre pas vraiment dans leurs catégories.