Quotes About Paradox

La velocidad de la oscuridad ha de ser superior a la de la luz, por el sencillo razonamiento de que, cuando la luz llega a un sitio, la oscuridad ya está allí.

She thought she might like him if only he wouldn't so excessively like her.

But I have told the truth. Isn't that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I have told the truth.

In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead.

How can you hide from what never goes away? --Heraclitus

It's a hard time to be human. We know too much and too little.

There is no egg in egg plant, neither apple nor pine in pineapple. A guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, two geese. So one moose, two meese? If teachers taught, why haven't preachers praught? We have noses that run and feet that smell. How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

A popular Internet essay notes: "There is no egg in egg plant, neither apple nor pine in pineapple. A guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, two geese. So one moose, two meese? If teachers taught, why haven't preachers praught? We have noses that run and feet that smell. How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was any reason for it? Miracles have nothing to do with reason. Miracles contradict reason, they strike clean across mere human deserts, and deliver and save where they will. If they made sense, they would not be miracles, And he was comforted and entertained, and fell asleep again readily, feeling that all was well with a world he had always know to be peculiar and perverse.

The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.

Simplicity does not need to be simple. Instead it should be forged of complexity that has been compressed and synthesized.

Ah, crap! Isn't Wrong worth the same as Right?

It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications

Seek simplicity and distrust it.

Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.

I am that which unloves me and loves; I am stricken, and I am the blow.

This is the paradox of being white and 'seeing white', but being to all intents and purposes 'invisible' or, more appropriately, as Frankenberg, Garner, and other sociologists of 'whiteness' have suggested, 'unmarked'. In Western societies

Nothing comic isn't serious.

Here was all about the visible-invisible borders, the thin lines between here and gone, then and now, here and there, random and meant, big and small.

It's funny to be sitting on such an uncommunal communal chair.

I don't want to be pinned down to any position. My position is the lack of a position, but of course you can't even talk about it; the minute you talk you spoil the whole game-Marcel Duchamp

Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.

But love's a tonic, Michael, not a cure. He was a bastard still.

She liked the salty taste of contradiction on her tongue.