427 Quotes About Paradox

Mr. Chan," Grace said as the wind whipped strands of her hair across her face. "What are you doing here?" She shouted over the howling wind as it lashed around them."Catering," the old man said flashing her a toothy gold grin.

I’d say that most of these [poems in Jason Mashak's book SALTY AS A LIP] are just straightforward enough, but not entirely explainable or attributable to a single cause/effect, which makes them the kind of poems I want to read many times… “Salty as a lip” is my favorite. It’s so alive: strange and human / earthy and raw. Mysterious but grounded. Mashak has manifested paradox, it seems. Bravo!

…every act, object and statement that man perceives is meaningful (even “nothing”) and […] the frontiers of meaning are always, momentarily, in state of collapse and paradox.

Im Paradoxen erscheint die Wirklichkeit.

To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. However, he attempted it.

The wiser I get, the more I realize how much of a fool I am.

...a paradox: architecture can only escape the flatness imposed by drawing through drawing.

Do souls need love to survive? Or does love need souls to survive?

People constantly stare at me in disbelief ; "she is crazy" . I tell them the same thing our wise scientists have taught us, "if I knew what I was doing, it wouldn't be called research.