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Quotes About Paradox

So now I'm popular?" Freya says. "They hate me, and I hit someone, and now they like me?
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Only a stupid person would say that. Well, and yet I've just said it. Yes.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
The rational reasons were all rationales for an underlying irrationality.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
I was old the day I was born and I'll be young the day I die.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Jevons Paradox proposes that increases in efficiency in the use of a resource lead to an overall increase in the use of that resource, not a decrease.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
The virgin was seducing the seductress!
~ Kresley Cole
You have no tongue yet you won't shut up
~ Kresley Cole
How can I fight so hard for freedom only to be enticed by captivity?
~ Kyra Davis
what one ought to capture in beauty is that which is treacherous and irresistible...
~ László Krasznahorkai
Get it into your thick head that jokes are just like life. Things that begin badly, end badly. Everything's fine in the middle, it's the end you need to worry about.
~ László Krasznahorkai
I have always thought myself very big and terrible; yet such small things as flowers came near to killing me, and such small animals as mice have saved my life. How strange it all is!
~ L. Frank Baum
the Cowardly Lion laughed, and said: I have always thought myself very big and terrible; yet such little things as flowers came near to killing me, and such small animals as mice have saved my life. How strange it all is! But
~ L. Frank Baum
If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.
~ Pier Paolo Pasolini
Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.
~ Heraclitus
Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.
~ Cotton Mather
Socrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept it.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.
~ Mark Twain
Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.
~ John Adams
Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.
~ Peter Rollins
Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.
~ Thomas Paine
I'm still an atheist, thank God.
~ Luis Bunuel
If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin