Quotes About Paradox

Most of us get turned on at night by the very things that we'll demonstrate against during the day.

When people become fused—when two become one—connection can no longer happen. There is no one to connect with. Thus separateness is a precondition for connection: this is the essential paradox of intimacy and sex.

Our individualistic society produces an uncanny paradox: As the need for faithfulness intensifies, so too does the pull toward unfaithfulness.

Truth has only two sides, but it's the third side that's best.

Prenez un cercle, caressez-le, il deviendra vicieux.

Another syllogism. All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.

She has regular features but yet one could not say that she was pretty. She is too big and too stout. Her features are not regular and yet one could say that she is very pretty. She is too small and too thin. She's a voice teacher

Experience teaches us that when one hears the doorbell ring it is because there is never anyone there.

The fact that I despise religion doesn't mean I don't esteem it highly.

dve stvari su za mene neprihvatljive: biti ro?en i onda umreti. samo to nisam tražio, i to nikako ne prihvatam.

Lumea are nevoie s? te cuprind?, pentru totdeauna, într-o definiÅ£ie simpl?, scurt? ÅŸi definitiv?, asupra c?reia niciodat? s? nu revin?. Iar insul este obligat s? se conformeze propriei sale definiÅ£iuni. Uneori îi place. Alteori se sufoc?.

Sînt deja închis. Cum sînt toti. Închis si totodata prea liber.

It is the paradox of virtue knit into the fabric of reality: you will not be free unless you are virtuous; you cannot be virtuous unless you are free.

This, finally, is the model of all radicalism, in the grip of which men reenact the fall of man as adults so often reenact their childhood traumas. Radicals transgress the paradox of virtue because they claim the knowledge of good and evil for themselves and strip the power to freely choose virtue from others. In this way, they transform their imagined paradise into a living hell.

It seemed that all the time in the world had passed, and that none had passed at all.

Some of the greatest of great men have also been the biggest bastards

This is funny," she says without a trace of laughter.

There is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

If someone was to tell you that the sum of all the numbers was minus one twelfth I suspect you might imagine the person was mildly crazy. Well, this is actually an established mathematical fact: the sum of all the numbers is minus one twelfth (or, in decimals, -0.083).

Popatrz jeno. KoÅ›cióÅ', karczma, bordel, a w Å›rodku miÄ™dzy nimi kupa gówna. Oto parabola ludzkiego ?ywota.

Geralt had discovered, many times, that all mechanisms are unreliable. They only worked when they ought not to work, and vice versa.

eyelashes. She smelled of ambergris, roses, library dust, decayed paper, minium and printing ink, oak gall ink, and strychnine, which was being used to poison the library mice. The smell had little in common with an aphrodisiac. So it was all the stranger that it worked on him. 'Don't

We were given the ability to do extraordinary things with nature, occasionally literally against her. And at the same time what is most natural and simple in nature was taken from us.

O Bom ou o Mal, a Luz ou as Trevas, a Ordem ou o Caos? São apenas símbolos, na realidade não existe esse tipo de polaridade! Todos carregam a Luz e as Trevas um pouco de um e um pouco do outro. Essa conversa não tem sentido. Não tem sentido. Não vou conseguir me convencer do misticismo.