Quotes about Paradox
Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?
— Ernest Hemingway
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
— Graham Greene
You might just as well say," added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in its sleep, "that 'I breathe when I sleep' is the same thing as 'I sleep when I breathe'!
— Lewis Carroll
America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.
— Malcolm X
He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
— Oscar Wilde
The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks. How nonphysicists would scoff if they were able to follow the odd course of developments!
— Albert Einstein
Simplicity is no virtue unless you are potentially complicated.
— Aldous Huxley
That horrible Benito Hoover! And yet the man had meant well enough. Which only made it, in a way, much worse. Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.
— Aldous Huxley
Nature is as incomprehensibly appalling as it is lovely and bountiful.
— Aldous Huxley
The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other--moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.
— John Eldredge
I want to die young at a ripe old age.
— Ashley Montagu
Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.
— Brennan Manning