It was the discovery of the quantum universe that changed everything, and that universe was so small and so dynamic that it could not be observed directly. Trying to explain their insights, scientists looked at...

Paradox reconciles all contradictions.

The total effect of Orwell’s work is an effect of paradox. He was a humane man who communicated an extreme of inhuman terror; a man committed to decency who actualised a distinctive squalor.

Two wrongs don’t make a right, but don’t three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don’t make a right, but don’t two negatives make a positive?

The incompetent always present thmeselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as devout, usurers as benefactors, the small minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant, and teh feeble-minded as intellectual.

The modern West has been deeply split about freedom and responsibility. On the one hand, it has championed human freedom in many forms – human rights, sexual freedom, political liberty, freedom to choose in many...

One of the great constants in life is change.

Most people don’t mind being stupid, insomuch that they do not appear stupid; appearance and being are seldom simultaneous, congruent, and conclusive.

[…] cela m’excite de penser à tout ce qui fuit dans la vie au nom de la vie.

Confusion is not a bad thing. It’s not doubt that makes a man mad. It’s certainty.

I never said most of the things I said.

Throughout the parables the paradoxical teachings continue: Give to receive. Die to live. Lose to win.

They have gone. And the tunnel is about to close. So, boys, I am looking for someone to blame.

Can you be in love with more than one person and only one person at the same time? Yes, if you’re in love with two clones.

Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a...

The average human lifespan compared to the age of the universe is the same as comparing a blink of an eye to that human lifespan. Relatively speaking, short and long lifespans are the same. Both...

He was the second snowman to be melting away before her eyes, only this one was different. It was a paradox. The colder he became, the more he melted.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

The only way to be completely self-consistent is to be constantly uttering paradoxes.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

I’m not offended until you think I’m offended.

This book does not exist. And even if it did, it wouldn’t be worth buying or reading.

We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.

You are never too old to become younger!

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

Failing to plan, is like planning to fail.

It’s a bit like staring into another dimension, one that has a different set of mathematical and physical laws. For me, it also serves as reminder that that the mind of God is unknowable, that...

Pops added,”you know, they say if you don’t vote, you get the government you deserve.””And if you do, you never get the results you expected,” (Katherine) replied.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.

I was the kid next door’s imaginary friend.

Those who cannot have your love, will gladly accept your hatred.

My father told me that it is only a mad man that keeps bushy hairs. I asked him, “what about the great men with bushy hairs?”. He replied, “education had made them mad, so study...

And the end of this paradox is that only when the child is thus free can he have the proper attachment to his parents; only when we allow his independence can he then freely offer...

It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy.

Love is not a purpose, it’s a paradox; it’s not an end-goal, it’s an auxiliary fuel source to help get there.

A circle has no end.

As a rule,I believe people shouldn’t follow rules;rules should follow people.

Baisu ne tai, kas pasakyta, bet tai, kas nutylėta

FV: Annandale defines ‘definition’ as “an explanation of the signification of a term.” Yet Oxford, on the other hand, defines it as “a statement of the precise meaning of a word.” A small, perhaps negligible...

The pile of stones thus marks both an act of deliberate remembrance, and an act of deliberate forgetting. They’re fond of paradox in that region.

Wyatt avoided the petty gunfights and headed to a saloon and rigged up a bunch of Molotov cocktails. Her firebombs against members of Tom and Vik’s posse had destroyed the scenario’s promise of so many...

Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

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.