Quotes About Paradox

Blessings are just curses that other people envy.

Nothing is beautiful and true.

I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.

I know that it is not necessary that there be one right thing. There may be two right things. There may be no right things.

This is a paradox: The opportunity to see and care for the dead body of a loved person reduces trauma to the bereaved, while seeing and handling the dead bodies of strangers is often traumatic in itself.

But a Broom-stick, perhaps you will say, is an Emblem of a Tree standing on its Head; and pray what is Man but a topsy-turvy Creature? His Animal Faculties perpetually mounted on his Rational; his Head where his Heels should be, groveling on the Earth.

Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell. - The Library of Babel

Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.

I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.

Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.

Que el cielo exista, aunque mi lugar sea el infierno.

Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.

La realidad no suele coincidir con las previsiones; con lógica perversa, prever un detalle circunstancial es impedir que este suceda

La muerte es una vida vivida. La vida es una muerte que viene.

A necessary monster.

A la realidad le gustan las simetrías y los leves anacronismos

Bana ayn? anda hem 800,000 kitab? hem de karanl??? veren Tanr?'n?n muhte?em ironisi

Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms

There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.

La gloria es una forma de incomprensión; quizás la peor.

Today is tomorrow and yesterday.

soy dios, soy héroe, soy filósofo, soy demonio y soy mundo, lo cual es una fatigosa manera de decir que no soy.

Morir por un a religión es más simple que vivirla con plenitud.

It's enough that if I am rich in anything, it is in perplexities rather then in certaintes.