Quotes About Paradox

Going forward seems like retreat.

A linguist would be shocked to learn that if a set is not closed this does not mean that it is open, or again that "E is dense in E" does not mean the same thing as "E is dense in itself".

We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.

Not all things that are simple are all that simple. Certain simple things carry complex weight!

I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life and then you call it fate. That's why I call it irony.

The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

How strange! You lose a little from you and you cry. And your whole life is wasting and you're laughing

Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

I we are born to die and we all die to live, then what's the point of living life if it just contradicts?

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.

Freedom could take you farther from what you sought, not closer.

Una piscina. Una bahía rocosa. Una parcela vacía. Un faro. Una torre. Estas cosas son reales y no lo son. Existen y no existen.

Progress':a word to choke on, a word to discard and then pick up again, hurl it in the oven like coal, watch it spurl out its own name in black smoke from the chimney of the hunting lodge. I embrace it, and I repeat it, and yet I know no word I or any other human could use will ever be the right word.

The fall took forever. The fall took no time at all.

Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends. —Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory 1.

Every one of us is a walking set of contradictions. The great among us are no different, except that their contradictions tend to run to extremes.

Actually, 'worthless piece of shit' if you think about it, suggests the possibility of the opposite.

Anarchy is all around us. Without it, our world would fall apart. All progress is due to it. All order extends from it. All blessed things that rise above the state of nature are owned to it. The human race thrives only because of the lack of control, not because of it. I'm saying that we need ever more absence of control to make the world a more beautiful place. It is a paradox that we must forever explain.

Maybe we don't recognize satisfaction because it is disguised as radical generosity, a strange misnomer in a consumer culture.

don't quite know how to explain Jesus' presence—intense and terrifying and gentle at the exact same time.