Quotes About Paradox

Time travel causes chaos, and chaos doesn't follow your rules. That's why it's called chaos, dummy. - Professor Charles Smart

People are strange, they neither wish to live nor die.

It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.

Dénombrer l'infini, n'est-ce pas le refuser?

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

Mature love is union under the condition of preserving one's integrity, one's individuality. Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unites him with others; love makes him overcome the sense of isolation and separateness, yet it permits him to be himself, to retain his integrity. In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

The paradoxical situation with a vast number of people today is that they are half asleep when awake, and half awake when asleep, or when they want to sleep.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.  

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Saint. A dead sinner revised and edited.

Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, he wants to reestablish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.

I have always thought that Heaven invented all the problems, and Hell the solutions.

Virtue becomes unhealthy if it is not softened by some misdemeanors, and faith quickly becomes cruel if is not subdued by certain doubts.

Ne t'étonne de rien, la réalité a deux visages, les hommes aussi.

So sind meine Berge nun mal: vereinen Heimatverbundenheit und Fernweh, sind Ort der Zuflucht und der Durchreise, ein Land, in dem Milch und Honig fließt, aber auch Blut. Weder Paradies noch Hölle. Fegefeuer.

Et il m'apparut que ce geste qui consiste à cueillir une fleur et à l'ajouter au bouquet que l'on tient déjà dans sa main, et que l'on serre même contre son cÅ"ur, est le geste le plus beau et le plus cruel à la fois, parce qu'il rend hommage à la fleur en lui donnant la mort.

Quand la joie devient l'ennemie de la joie...

La proverbiale alchimie levantine n'opère manifestement

Because God has made us fall in love just as he has made certain flowers poisonous.

Calcutta is like a work of modern art that neither makes sense nor has utility, but exists for some esoteric aesthetic reason.

Mislove manages the neat trick of having two meanings that are almost opposite each other. While this is not an uncommon phenomenon (for example, left can refer to both having departed and remaining), words in this category are usually significantly more boring than mislove. Monodynamic

Love is a curious mixture of opposites, a blend of extreme selfishness and total devotion. A paradox! Besides which, love, everybody is always talking about love, love, but love isn't something you choose, you catch it like a disease, you get trapped in it, like a disaster.