Quotes About Paradox

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Communication is improbable.

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.

But yet with all this, although, of course, one may admit this, that and the other, may even... and after all, where aren't there incongruities?

What a strange creature man is! He does not believe in God, but he does believe that if the bridge of is nose itches he is surely going to die;

De que modo estranho e incompreensível o destino brinca connosco! Será que alguma vez alcançamos aquilo que almejamos? Será que conseguimos aquilo que, parece, as nossas forças foram expressamente preparadas? Tudo se passa ao contrário.

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

Once, I saw a bee drown in honey, and I understood.

I cried when I was born and I shall die laughing.

Aside from the fact that she's a horrible human being, she's actually very nice." Rebecca

There is something so absurd about time and how it has simultaneously preserved and demolished our faces.

Of all the gods nailed to the cross, Discord was the most beautiful.

A skeptic once said to me, 'I don't believe the Bible because it has miracles.' I said, 'Name one.' He said, 'Turning water into wine. Do you believe that?' I said, 'Yeah, it happens all the time.' He said, 'What do you mean?' I said, 'Well, rain goes through the grapevine up into the grape, and the grape turns into wine. All Jesus did was speed it up a little bit.

The paradox is that no love can prove so intense as the love of two narcissists for each other.

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.

Here, and everywhere, psychoanalysis must take the paradoxical position that the Child is Father to the Man; that Primal Father was once a boy, and, if there is anything to psychoanalysis, owes his disposition to his boyhood.

But the real point of the Freudian paradox is that, despite the social order and despite anatomical fact, the immortal wish of both sexes is the same. Penis-envy in women is the residue of the causa sui project in women, corresponding to the phallic ego in men. As long as mankind and culture are in flight from death, so long will penis fantasies confuse the erotic, familial, and social life of women, as they do for men.

For instance," said the boy again, "if Christmas trees were people and people were Christmas trees, we'd all be chopped down, put up in the living room, and covered in tinsel, while the trees opened our presents." "What does that have to do with it?" asked Milo. "Nothing at all," he answered, "but it's an interesting possibility, don't you think?

Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things. - Humbug

Den Satz des Widerspruchs zu vernichten ist vielleicht die höchste Aufgabe der höheren Logik

There are moments in one's life when everything one considers to be a win is for all practical purposes a loss.