Quotes About Paradox

Paradox of Information wherein we can know too many things without knowing what those "things" are.

?çimin mevsimlerine de hiç uymaz ?u tabiat.

?nsan yap?s?ndaki çeli?kiler, onun ne ölüme ne de sonsuzlu?a bir türlü dayanamad???n? gösteriyor. Sonsuzluk da ölüm kadar ürkütücü bir gerçektir.

You are horror and beauty in rare combination.

I don't like most Utopia stories because I don't believe them for a moment. It seems inevitable that my Utopia would be someone else's hell.

no one had been able to give him a reason why people who had excellent reasons to suppose they would destroy themselves if they did a certain thing chose to do that thing anyway.

They consider it a sin to take any life, yet they kill and kill.

If I was to live, if others were to live, he must live. I didn't dare test the paradox.

Gli essere umani sono bravissimi sono bravissimi a crearsi un inferno perfino nell'abbondanza.

You are horror and beauty in rare combination. In a very real way, you've captured us, and we can't escape.

Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is nothing more natural than sexual desire; there is nothing less natural than the forms in which it is made manifest and satisfied.

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

They pretend they're keeping everyone out, when in fact they're locked in.

In reality, movement doesn't exist. Like the turtle in Zeno's paradox, we're heading nowhere, if anything we're simply wandering into the interior of a moment, and there is no end, nor any destination.

What is life, after all if not dancing on graves?

Or to a different law that hasn't been demonstrated and that we haven't even thought of yet that says that you can doubly not exist in the same place?

Every place has two characters— every place is double. What is sublime is also fallen. What is clement is at the same time base. In the deepest darkness lies the spark of the most powerful light, and vice versa: where omnipresent clarity reigns, a pit of darkness lurks inside the seed of light.

Everything has two sides -- the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

The man recover'd of the bite,The dog it was that died.

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity.… And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

Yace aquí el gran Cardenal, que hizo en vida mal y bien, el bien que hizo lo hizo mal, el mal que hizo lo hizo bien.

Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this?

Dünya deÄŸiÅŸir, ve hep ayn? kal?r.

The vision of the gods without the power of the gods. What a terrible gift. A glorious gift.