Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.

Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution.

I am the Vending Machine of Love. Exact change only. The price is 33.3 cents.

Rain never falls on a cloud.

…but that was the thing about reality. It didn’t need to make sense.

Ir grūti kādu visu mūžu ienīst, un tad piepeši… nekā, vairs pilnīgi nekā.

I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.

Writer’s write because they’re writers.

Ah, it is impossible.””No, it is only very difficult – so very difficult that I shall be sure to accomplish it!

The argument goes something like this: “I refuse to prove that I exist,” says God, “for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

Give me an honest con man any day.

Perhaps the saddest part of coexistence is the concept of interdependence being necessary for any form of solidarity to be realized. Being encouraged to lean on the weak, does not sound like a long term...

The subtleties of the mind cannot be transmitted in words, but can be seen in words.

That’s the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they’re suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That’s why the things...

Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly hero. Most writers spend their lives writing about unexpected malice in the supposedly...

Many came to Jesus expecting him to solve their problems. Instead he helped them to connect to their own faith and their own wisdom.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man?

Or–to quote another paradoxical gem of my dad’s: sometimes you have to lose to win.

Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life’s sorrow with grace.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Kur vispār zināšanas cilvēci novedušas? Pie atombumbām, nāvīgām gāzēm un visādiem nāves rīkiem. Nebūtu augstskolu, ļaudis izkautos ar rungām, dabūtu punus un zilumus un – atkal varētu slēgt mieru.Pārspīlētas pieklājības klusinātajā gammā katrs spēcīgāks akords...

His mindIt says survival of the fittest butHis soulRevival of the idiotsSo good riddance, dancing

And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.

Just because a prediction is true, doesn’t mean that it is not false.

ORTHODOX PARADOX Religion, unlike ethnicity, is inculcated Kamil Ali

If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of...

And he who wields white, wild magic gold is a paradoxFor he is everything and nothingHero and foolPotent, helplessAnd with one word of truth or treacheryHe will save or damn the earthBecause he is mad...

The absence of a muse can be even more inspirational than its presence

They’re sharing a drink called loneliness, but at least its better than drinking alone.

Don’t believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no pity for self-pity and so am free of that sweet...

There are those who are legitimately corrupt, who cannot admit that legitimacy allows them to corrupt legitimacy, and to legitimately corrupt others.

Mom?” I said. She turned. “Can I talk to you about something?” “Of course, darling. Come here.”I took a few steps into the room. There was so much I wanted to say. “I need you...

A paradox may be paradoctored.

Without death Death is dead

Each cherry took about three seconds to eat. Three seconds to eat, but at least five years in the making. It seemed unfair to the hard-working cherry tree. The least I could do was to...

This Lord of natures today was transformed contrary to His nature; it is not too difficult for us to also overthrow our evil will.” Hymns of the Nativity, Hymn 1:97, pg. 74 in Ephrem the...

Double standards are inspiration to men of letters, but they are apt to be fatal to politicians.

Perhaps part of the uncanny allure of fashionable clothing resides in the paradoxical impact of its expressiveness: the act of covering up with mere dead matter–cloth, fur, leather, or even metal when it is ingeniously...

There is a beauty in paradox when it comes to talking about things of ultimate concern. Paradox works against our tendency to stay superficial in our faith, or to rest on easy answers or categorical...

Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as is our separateness, but any particular person is not a necessary part of...

Il n’est pas certain que tout soit incertain.(Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

The inconsistencies that haunt our relationships with animals also result from the quirks of human cognition. We like to think of ourselves as the rational species. But research in cognitive psychology and behavioral economics shows...

The trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.

There are many, many, many worlds branching out at each moment you become aware of your environment and then make a choice.

It’s weird not to be weird.