Quotes About Paradox

Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.

There's two heads to every coin.

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?

You might say that success ruined me. You might say I ruined success.

The world isn't the place we are told to live in. It is another place entirely. We have both more choice, and less, than we are supposed to have.

You cannot step twice in the same river--Heraclitus

What happens when you get scared half to death twice?

it may rain or it may shine, probably at the same time. (Lamentations 5:23)

The guilty pleasure defense. In my view if it's guilty, it ain't pleasure.

In contrast to symbiotic union, 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.

Paradoxical logic was predominant in Chinese and Indian thinking, in the philosophy of Heraclitus, and then again, under the name of dialectics, it became the philosophy of Hegel, and of Marx.

Sembra un paradosso, ma nell'amore due esseri diventano uno, e tuttavia restano due.

En el amor se da la paradoja de dos seres que se convierten en uno y, no obstante, siguen siendo dos.

Bu nas?l oldu? Nas?l oldu da, insano?lu, do?aya kar?? kazand??? utkunun doru?undayken, kendi yaratt??? ?eylerin tutsa?? haline geldi, nas?l oldu da, ciddi olarak kendi kendini yok etme tehlikesiyle kar?? kar??ya kald??

Er musste an eine Zeichnung von Daumier denken, die Der Fortschritt hieß. Daumier hatte auf dem Blatt Schnecken dargestellt, die hintereinander herkrochen, das war das Tempo der menschlichen Entwicklung. Aber die Schnecken krochen im Kreis! Und das war das Schlimmste.

I want to think and at the same time that's the last thing in the world I want to do.

Some day perhaps our time will be known as the age of irony. Not the witty irony of the eighteenth century, but the stupid or malignant irony of a crude age of technological progress and cultural regression.

You can't know anything beforehand. The incurable can survive the healthy. Life is a strange phenomenon.

Inimene on suur oma kavatsustes, kuid nõrk nende teostamises. Selles peitubki tema armetus ja võlu.

It's odd,' she murmured, 'but as long as we don't forget that we're falling and falling, nothing is lost. Life seems to love paradoxes - when we think we're perfectly safe, we're always ridiculous and on the verge of a tumble; but when we know we're lost, life showers gifts on us. Then we don't have to do a thing - it runs after us like a poodle.

Šaubas ir tic?bas otra puse.

Pred platnima impresionista ?ovek nije mogao verovati da jedna životinjska vrsta koja je tako nešto stvorila može istovremeno spremati ubila?ki rat

I think it is more of a kind of fever," says Albert. "No one in particular wants it, and then all at once there it is. We didn't want the war, the others say the same thing—and yet half the world is in it all the same.