Paradox Quotes - Page 4

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

E.D.E.N. Southworth

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

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

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.

Toba Beta

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 few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.

A philosopher operates with deductions. A sophist operates with paradoxes. A "public intellectual" operates with buzzwords.

Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

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.

Nobody comes here anymore, its too crowded

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

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.

Procrastinate now, don't put it off.

Ellen DeGeneres

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Vince Lombardi Jr.

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?

Andrew Clements

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

George Bernard Shaw

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 sun. It is an absolute rule. Therefore when someone says that their love will never die, it means that their love is not real, for everything that is real dies. Rule number two: Everything lasts forever.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

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.

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

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