Quotes About Paradox

She speaks, yet she says nothing.

I never knew so young a body with so old a head.

Very tragical mirth.

My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.

Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God.

The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.

The Three Oddest Words When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it. When I pronounce the word nothing, I make something no nonbeing can hold.

Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still

I even stopped walking to give some thought to the fact that everyone, after all, wants to be himself, so I too want to be myself, for example who would love syphilis, of course no one loves syphilis, but after all, a syphilitic man also wants to be himself, namely a syphilitic, it is easy to say "I want to be well again," and yet it sounds strange, as if to say "I don't want to be who I am.

Das ist ja beim Menschen ein interessanter Widerspruch. Den Mut bewundert man, aber die Blödheit bewundert man nicht, obwohl es doch dasselbe ist.

No hay nada en la vida que sea solo bueno o solo malo.

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

It's a match made in heaven...by a retarded angel.

Is sex dirty? Only when it's being done right.

It's a match made in heaven...by a retarded angel.

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up.

Si la cursilería fuera un pecado, yo cada noche me ganaría el infierno.

Te ríes cuando deberías horrorizarte. Te enamoras de mí cuando más bien tendrías que esquivarme.

El inglés necesita de un verbo fatalista para emplear la expresión "enamorarse": to fall. O sea que el enamorado no exactamente asciende a un estado superior, sino al contrario: cae. Tropieza, se distrae, es entrampado. Cae, igual que Luzbel. Si Cristo hubiese dicho "Enamoraos los unos a los otros", ya estaríamos todos viviendo en el Infierno.

Math has proven the existence of God, because it is absolute and without contradiction; but the devil must exist as well, because we cannot prove it

by choosing two aspects of a subject that appear to be in opposition, each can be examined in light of the other in order to better illuminate the entire subject, as long as one doesn't mistake the system for reality.

It is the wonderful paradox," he continued, "that the best way to achieve happiness for oneself is to give happiness to others.

The purpose of Buddhism is not to convert people. It is to give them tools so they can create greater happiness. So they can be happier Catholics, happier atheists, happier Buddhists. There are many practices, and I know you are already very familiar with one of them." Mrs. Trinci raised her eyebrows. "It is the wonderful paradox," he continued, "that the best way to achieve happiness for oneself is to give happiness to others.