Quotes About Paradox

There are many good things about getting older, but no one knows what they are.

Let us talk about oxymoron, common sense, for instance.

Your advice seems a little ironical.""Oh, you may either follow it or reverse it—that is its chief beauty. It is equally good taken either way.

Grace sat down where the chair wasn't.

A paradox is a storm that rains on itself.

Clearly it's not all that pacific on the Pacific Ocean

If consultants followed their own advice, they wouldn't tell anyone.

It is my firm belief that it is a mistake to hold firm beliefs

Thinking over this thought, this whole thinking makes no sense.

Two puzzles that cannot be solved:The miracle of birth and misery of death.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing but if we are to give everything its due twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.

The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human spirit from its material limitations.

We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

The funny thing about stop signs is that they're also start signs.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge

Have you ever noticed how people who wear camouflage gear really stand out in a crowd?

Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.

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

Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.