Quotes About Paradox

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

What a mystery, what an absurdity if not true, and if true what a wonder!

The Christian faith contributed to the rise of the modern world, but the Christian faith has been undermined by the modern world it helped to create. The Christian faith thus becomes its own gravedigger.

Reality rebounds, and things turn out the opposite of what they seem and what people expect. Strength becomes weakness; love becomes pornography; pleasure becomes boredom; and so on.

Something has surely gone terribly wrong when Christians are the best atheist arguments against the Christian faith and Christendom their best argument for atheism.

For at the heart of freedom lies a grand paradox: the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.

the more I feared people the more I was liked, and the more I was liked the more I feared them—a process which eventually compelled me to run away from everybody.

I was cursed by the unhappy peculiarity that the more I feared people the more I was liked, and the more I was liked the more I feared them - a process which eventually compelled me to run away from everybody.

never could think of prostitutes as human beings or even as women. They seemed more like imbeciles or lunatics. But in their arms I felt absolute security. I could sleep soundly.

Please. Fire can't burn underwater." "Think before you speak, young master. Water contains oxygen, doesn't it? Where there's oxygen, there's no reason you can't have fire.

Some nights I saw these imbecile, lunatic prostitutes with the halo of Mary

I was cured by the unhappy peculiarity that the more I feared people the more I was liked, and the more I was liked the more I feared them - a process which eventually compelled me to run away from everybody.

En el fondo, nos hemos equivocado al prejuzgar que convertirse en un abuelito de trescientos años ha supuesto una desgracia para Urashima.

There is always a contradiction between religion and common sense.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is non the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Chastity is the greatest form of perversion.

Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves,By each let this be heard,Some do it with a bitter look,Some with a flattering word,The koward does it with a kiss,The brave man with a sword

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.