Quotes About Paradox

There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is no beginning of that no beginning of beginning. There is something. There is nothing. There is something before the beginning of something and nothing, and something before that. Suddenly there is something and nothing. But between something and nothing, I still don't really know which is something and which is nothing. Now, I've just said something, but I don't really know whether I've said anything or not.

To use a horse to show that a horse is not a horse is not as good as using a non-horse to show that a horse is not a horse...

Because there is, there is not, and because there is not, there is.

IN GOD'S KINGDOM, many things are the opposite of what you'd expect. To be great, be a humble servant. To be strong, recognize your weakness. To be close to God, admit the darkness and depravity in your heart.

I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.

Ideology today is unfreedom which you sincerely personally experience as freedom.

The more opera is dead, the more it flourishes.

I still feel like I'm jumping on an elevator -- weightless and pulled down at the same time.

Life is in infinite motion; at the same time it is motionless.

My life's misery and tragedy is my wealth and splendor.

We are trying to build peace by inventing new war machines; if that isn't insanity than what is?

People are funny. They want the front of the bus, the middle of the road and the back of the church. —Mrs. Miracle

who says wicked can't be good?

Mitt problem är att jag vill röka cigarren själv och att någon annan ska tända den åt mig. Jag vill blåsa ut röken. Som en vulkan. Som ett monster. Jag vill att det ska ryka om mig. Jag vill inte vara flickan vars jobb det är att jämra sig me gäll röst på begravningar.

She had to admit he was quite handsome even though he was repulsive.

Hidup memang aneh. Banyak penjelasan dalam ketidakjelasannya.

Humans are in the ironic position of knowing for certain that we have a mind, while at the same time finding that our mind can't explain itself.

It was strange that someone whose need to worship was so intense could be so dismissive of religion.

Good is not always good.

Neither alive nor dead; no one lets up, no one wins.

Possible impossibility emerges from an impossible possibility, or possibly, impossible possibility blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility.

They are both spectacular, life and death.

To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.

Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.