Quotes About Paradox

Have you ever been annoyed and amused with yourself at the same time? It's an interesting feeling, to say the very least.

You can divide infinity an infinite number of times, and the resulting pieces will still be infinitely large," Uresh said in his odd Lenatti accent. "But if you divide a non-infinite number an infinite number of times the resulting pieces are non-infinitely small. Since they are non-infinitely small, but there are an infinite number of them, if you add them back together, their sum is infinite. This implies any number is, in fact, infinite.

he was often heard to say, 'I won the only duel I ever lost.

Uma pessoa inteligente e insensata é uma das coisas mais assustadoras que há.

You can divide infinity an infinite number of times, and the resulting pieces will still be infinitely large. But if you divide a non-infinite number an infinite amount of times the resulting pieces are non-infinitely small. Since they are non-infinitely small, but there are an infinite number of them, if you add them back together, their sum is infinite. This implies that any number is, in fact, infinite.

Es como la vida misma [...]. Nos gustan las cosas dulces, pero necesitamos las amargas.

Isn't that the way of the world? we want the sweet things but we need the unpleasant ones".

Your next lesson is this: all women are the same height lying down.

He lay in his stony crypt like his own corpse, hardly breathing, his heart hardly beating - and yet lived as intensively and dissolutely as ever a rake had lived in the wide world outside.

I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

We used to laugh at our small selves, saying that I was a bad girl trying to be good and that he was a good boy trying to be bad. Through the years these roles would reverse, then reverse again, until we came to accept our dual natures. We contained opposing principles, light and dark.

A real prison breakfast" I said. "Yeah, but we are free." And that summed it up.

often contradiction is the clearest way to truth.

Through it all we held fast to the concept of the clock with no hands. Tasks were completed, sump pumps manned, sandbags piled, trees planted, shirts ironed, hems stitched, and yet we reserved the right to ignore the hands that kept on turning.

Through the years these roles would reverse, then reverse again, until we came to accept our dual natures. We contained opposing principles, light and dark.

a black granite cube containing only the character mu

Aprendi com ele que muitas vezes a contradição é o caminho mais claro para a verdade.

Da lui ho imparato che la contraddizione è spesso la più limpida forma di verità

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

I'm saying you'll never know if you made the wrong choice or not. You would need to have all the facts before you knew, and the only way to get all the facts is to be in two places at the same time--which is impossible.

But that was the beauty of this particular game. The moment you lost, you won.

To think one thought meant thinking the opposite thought, and no sooner did that second thought destroy the first thought than a third thought rose up to destroy the second.

You can't hate something so violently unless a part of you also loves it.

Quand on me demande pourquoi je fume, je réponds que c'est parce que j'aime tousser.