A paradox is a storm that rains on itself.

A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.

I am Dead, but it’s not so bad. I’ve learned to live with it.

The man lying on the sofa seemed friendly. But how friendly could he really be if he was a liar?

He was a committed ladies’ man and obtained a great deal of sustenance from the seemingly inexhaustible supply of women, but he guarded himself vigilantly against addiction, fearful of becoming fodder for that feminine allure...

Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there was danger. Being an imperfect creature in an imperfect world he would always...

Language … has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being alone.

Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

Friendship exhibits a glorious “nearness by resemblance” to Heaven itself where the very multitude of the blessed (which no man can number) increases the fruition which each has of God. For every soul, seeing Him...

I stole this from Zen Master Suzuki Roshi: If it’s not paradoxical it’s not true!

That’s the news from Lake Woebegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

philosophizing Science is scientifically what so called Philosophy .

To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows is true.

The universe is a contradiction; time a paradox.

Ah Life,Thou art a false truth!

Salty as a lip” is my favorite. It’s so alive: strange and human / earthy and raw. Mysterious but grounded. Mashak has manifested paradox, it seems. Bravo!

If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise?

Joy is that paradox where a man so trusts, is so enraptured, as to be caught up and lost in the other, while at the same time, being utterly known by the other, thus utterly...

The fraudulence paradox was that the more time and effort you put into trying to appear impressive or attractive to other people, the less impressive or attractive you felt inside — you were a fraud....

We dream to suffer, but we also suffer to dream.Love to hurt as we hurt to love.We speak kindly to be kindly to speak.Danger to be dangerous as dangerous is to be danger.

The more leeches there are affixed to a host, the less resources there are to siphon from said hosts, per parasite. The ability to only absorb energy, without the ability or desire to reproduce it...

I myself find the division of the world into an objective and a subjective side much too arbitrary. The fact that religions through the ages have spoken in images, parables, and paradoxes means simply that...

His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.

There is a curious paradox that no one can explain. Who understands the secret of the reaping of the grain? Who understands why Spring is born out of Winter’s laboring pain, or why we must...

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

From time to timeI once wondered how one wanders from time to timeAnd think up the paradox lineSpeak of Epoch’s crimeOh I lied, it hasn’t happened yetBut bet you better believe it’s such a habit...

You could have the paradox of lifetime job guarantees and far fewer workers.

Religion. It’s given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

At which Charion Pratt blushed girlishly, to her own furious embarrassment, yet the eye she cast upon the little coxcomb was not unlike that which a certain toad had once cast upon her: for there...

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity

It is odd that the Bible says, ‘God created man,’ whereas it is the other way round: man has created God. It is odd that the Bible says, ‘The body is mortal, the soul is...

Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.

Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not...

how normal is normal ? is that . it is approximately close enough with the one which is the most absolute one

Human hypocrisy: When one judges humanity as a whole, people have the habit of disagreeing, saying that everyone is different – unique. Yet people turn around and say that at the end of the day,...

A moment is a paradox of time.

Every moment is the paradox of now or never.

He was a thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of me and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime. No...

Cameron is ShrimpShrimp is small.I am big.Oximoron

There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the only way to serve the...

My son used to believe that he could look at a plane in flight and make it explode in midair by simply thinking it. He believed, at thirteen, that the border between himself and the...

The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.

In the average, want overcomes reason. In the magnificent, reason is the want.

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

Nobody ever goes to that store to shop because it’s too crowded.

Sonnet IIf thee must say that I am not who I am,That I am not real or true,Then thou must say you are not as well,For we either walk in fairytales and dance to our...

Here is a paradox: People who think imperfect are closer to perfection than their counterparts who claim that they’re perfect or closer…

Man has 2 common problems with God: the one is that there is evil in the world; the other is that free will is limited. The one, he is charging that the world is too...

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.