Quotes About Paradox

The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.

History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.

Fun-run" indeed,what a misnomer. That'd be like saying "calm gremlin" or "pleasant hag." Or 'entertaining history textbook.

Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.

Unlove's the heavenless hell and the homeless home.

I've never seen electricity, that's why I don't pay for it

What I don't understand about mobile homes is that you have a mobile place to live, you park it, and you never move it again. That's like buying a Sony Walkman, and nailing it to your hi-fi.

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

In a perfect world, you and I probably wouldn't exist, so let's not hope for one.

God exists because arithmetic is consistent - the Devil exists because we can't prove it!

A world without hope, but no despair

I love Humanity but I hate humans

Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.

The artist is a god, but he is also an idiot. That is the human way.

It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.

It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.

Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.