Quotes About Paradox

Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another.

It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away with this convention.

Good taste is always bad.

As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.

Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

You can't second-guess ineffability, I always say.

Good deeds never go unpunished.

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.

You never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen. I realized that good and bad were always there and always mixed up together in a tangle.

One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either.

Good and bad; shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end.

London grew into something huge and contradictory. It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay.

Good and bad, what's good and bad? I don't know.

My good friend, the poet Kofi Natambu, once said, "Contradiction is how we operate."

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.

Oh, well...up until now it had been a good day, in a horrible kind of way.

All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

I once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn't sing it. It's called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it's about how the world is plastic and full of government cheese swans.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.

The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.

The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.

At one level Great Britain at the beginning of the 18th century was like the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, both three and one, and altogether something of a mystery.