Quotes About Paradox

some preached asceticism, others licentiousness. All preached confusion.

En lugar de quinientos, decía nueve.

Luego reflexionó que la realidad no suele coincidir con las previsiones; con lógica perversa infirió que prever un detalle circunstancial es impedir que éste suceda.

La gloria é una forma di incomprensione, forse la peggiore.

Bioy Casares recalled that one of the heresiarchs of Uqbar had stated that mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of man.

Que un individuo quiera despertar en otro individuo recuerdos que no pertenecieron más que a un tercero es una paradoja evidente. Ejecutar con despreocupación esa paradoja, es la inocente voluntad de toda biografía.

Un atribut al lucrurilor infernale e irealitatea, un atribut ce pare s? mic?oreze spaimele pe care le provoac?, dar poate c? le spore?te.

Ebrio de insomnio y de vertiginosa dialéctica

Enchanted by its rigour, humanity forgets over and again that it is a rigour of chess masters, not of angels

In copilarie acceptam aceste uratenii asa cum accepti toate lucrurile incompatibile pe care numai din pricina coexistentei lor raspund la numele de univers.

Tragedy is an unfinished comedy.

CAMPBELL: You yourself are participating in the evil, or you are not alive. Whatever you do is evil for somebody. This is one of the ironies of the whole creation.

In the Hellenistic period, Scylla was identified with the rock of logic, while Charybdis was identified with the abyss of mysticism. One must sail between—as these are all instructions for moving down through the middle, between each pair of opposites.

Desperately brave generals are often frightened of mice. Sometimes they even boast of their little weakness.

Might I ask you a question, sir?" Ned groaned. "Yes, I was dead last night. And yes, I know they call me Never Dead Ned. But I guess that's only because Occasionally Dead Ned isn't nearly as catchy. Does that answer your question?" "It's true then. You can't die." "Actually, I die very well. In fact, I dare say I'm the undisputed grand master at perishing. It's the staying-dead part that I'm not very good at.

What is it that demands an answer but never asks a question?

Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie, A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly. Ask me a riddle and I reply: "Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie.

Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie, A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly. Ask me a riddle and I reply: "Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie." That

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

99 percent secure is 100 percent insecure.

Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want." "We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to." "Thanks." Wedge & Tycho

Sometimes life is like living in a chamber of Liquid Oxygen. Liquid don't allow you to live and Oxygen don't let you die.

A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.