Quotes about Paradox

And both are gone. And ironically, I'm drawn to repeat my well known apothegm of futility: that, just as the person who wants praise will never be satisfied with praise, the person who wants love cannot be satisfied with love. No want is ever fulfilled. And I therefore still don't know whether it is better to fear God and keep His commandments or to curse God and die. Fortunately, I've been able to get by very neatly without doing either.

Sure there's a catch,' Doc Daneeka replied. 'Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.' There

That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. "It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.

Homer begged and Rembrandt went bankrupt. Aristotle, who had money for books, his school, and his museum, could not have bought this painting of himself. Rembrandt could not afford a Rembrandt.

The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him. Catch 22

The nobility of what humans could be capable of, if only they weren't human.

The paradox in our relation to nature is that the more deeply a culture respects the indifference of nature, the more creatively it will call upon its own spontaneity in response. The more clearly we remind ourselves that we can have no unnatural influence on nature, the more our culture will embody a freedom to embrace surprise and unpredictability.

The greatest man in history was the poorest

Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good.

For if God Himself became man, this man, what else can this mean but that He declared himself guilty of the contradiction against Himself

Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.

There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.