427 Quotes About Paradox

There are those who are legitimately corrupt, who cannot admit that legitimacy allows them to corrupt legitimacy, and to legitimately corrupt others.

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

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

It is odd that the Bible says, ‘God created man,’ whereas it is the other way round: man has created God. It is odd that the Bible says, ‘The body is mortal, the soul is immortal,’ whereas even here the contrary is true: the body (its matter) is eternal; the soul (the form of the body) is transitory.

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 to be wise and sane.

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

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. Men grow old, the end grows near, each moment becomes more and more valuable and there is no time to waste on recollection. It's important to understand the mathematical paradox in nostalgia, that it is most powerful in early youth , when the volume of life that has passed is quite small.

The difference between time and money is that money can be stored for future use. Most people make the mistake of saving money by wasting their time.

A woman lives a life of contradictions wrapped inside paradoxes wrapped inside a big candy wrapper.