Quotes About Paradox

A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology, and syntax.

I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It's very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.

In her beauty rests (both) my death and my life.

How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

Sometimes, the monsters are terribly beautiful, and the heroes loathsome.

already she drew in the sand with her big toe: King Solomon, as though he were a rubber ball, an apocalyptic, bearded herring, an imperial walking-stick, an amalgam, half chicken and half Solomon.

Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

The knife is the most durable, immortal, the most genius thing that man created. The knife was the guillotine; the knife is the universal means of solving all knots; and along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox - the single most worthy path of the fearless mind.

Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . .

But why is it that within me "I don't want to" and "I want to" stand side by side? That is the chief horror of the matter; I continue to long for that happy death of yesterday. The horror of it is that even now, when I have integrated the logical function, when it becomes evident that that function contains death hidden within it, still I long for it with my lips, my arms, my heart, with every millimeter....

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.

So what if nothing but the breadth of a knife blade separates us from the other dark side of the Zero Cliff? A knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of all of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine, the knife is a universal means of resolving all knots, and the path of paradox lies along the blade of a knife—the only path worthy of the mind without fear. . . .

I had only wanted to stay invisible, but there as elsewhere invisibility is a luxury.

I didn't really say everything I said.

I really didn't say everything I said.

No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.

Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded.

Yogi Berra said "If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too.

To live is to conspire against death knowing that death is our best ally

Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg.