To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.

No one trusts a model except the man who wrote it; everyone trusts an observation, except the man who made it.

Music was a chain forged half of silences and half of sound, love was nothing without longing and loss, and were time not to have at its end the absence of time, and the absence...

The more vast the amount of time we’ve left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it. This pronouncement seems to state the obvious and yet it is false....

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

We fear what we long for. This is the paradox.

The absence of the latter means nothing, though its presence may mean everything

Omnipotent-benevolent simply means that God is all-powerful and well-meaning.”I understand the concept. It’s just . . . there seems to be a contradiction.”Yes. The contradiction is pain. Man’s starvation, war, sickness . . .”Exactly!’ Chartrand...

The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Just because a path never existed, doesn’t mean that it isn’t there…

Time is the biggest paradox of all time.

Don’t I always tell you to never listen to me?

This kindness, this stupid kindness, is what is most truly human in a human being. It is what sets man apart, the highest achievement of his soul. No, it says, life is not evil!This kindness...

It seemed a ruse that fear of death should be the sole motivation for living and, yet, to quell this fear made the prospect of living itself seem all the more absurd; to extend this...

First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state of childishness and even, perhaps, feel affection for him. Then, the moment he...

Glory: I look around at this world you’re so eager to be a part of and all I see is six billion lunatics looking for the fastest ride out. Who’s not crazy? Look around, everyone’s...

Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician’s relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.

Proper process, should not hinder progress. Too much focus on process, has left many blind to measured, tangible progress.

We are killing, every one of us, every moment of the day – just by living. And if one realizes this, is this very realization itself not a conscious consent to murder? If a truly...

One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.

No one knows for sure that that tomorrow won’t come, but most people assume that tomorrow will still exist as usual. This is Toba’s Paradox, which means, hope overcomes doubt.

My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.

A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.

Masa lalu adalah kemarin; Mengubahnya hanya menimbulkan sebuah paradox untuk mereka dan dunianya

The paradox is that without desire, we cannot be successful. When we are striving for desires that will give us what we want and enrich the lives of the people around us directly or indirectly,...

The method of addition is quite charming if it involves adding to the self such things as a cat, a dog, roast pork, love of the sea or of cold showers. But the matter becomes...

The Paradox of Sustenance: For an organism’s life to be continued; another organism’s life has to be discontinued.

The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp. As the living brain cannot conceive of a nonliving brain — although it may think it can — the finite...

If we are free to delete all inconvenient data we shall certainly have no theological difficulties; but for the same reason no solutions and no progress…. The troublesome fact, the apparent absurdity which can’t be...

The Universe is very, very big.It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely strict rules.Rule number one: Nothing lasts forever.Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the...

Normality is the new eccentric.

Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.

I’m no one… I don’t want to be anyone. I stepped into singularity to exist within a void. I’m no one… However, I am becoming… Imagination. I am grabbing conception, and leaving humanity behind. Humans...

When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.

Joshua to Angela: “Please, Angela, do it for me… and you never know you just might have fun.” She looked at him warily. “I find that highly doubtful, Josh.””Well how will you know unless you...

Nobody comes here anymore, its too crowded

The…act of surrender—or devotion, as the case may be—was, to him, a kind of lifeline for those who sought a quick answer and didn’t want to stick around long enough to see their doubt through...

Mathematics education is much more complicated than you expected, even though you expected it to be more complicated than you expected.

We have not advanced very far in our spiritual lives if we have not encountered the basic paradox of freedom, to the effect that we are most free when we are bound. But not just...

THE MYTH OF THE GOOD OL BOY AND THE NICE GAL The good of boy myth and the nice gal are a kind of social conformity myth. They create a real paradox when put together...

There is more clarity in paradoxical truths, than there is in a single act of bold stupidity.

And that was all the part of it – the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied about your love, you deceived your legal wife, and all in the name...

All their life, people work hard to earn money, and they never earn enough money to fulfill their dreams. Is this a paradox?