Quotes about Paradox

America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.

He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

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!

Simplicity is no virtue unless you are potentially complicated.

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.

Nature is as incomprehensibly appalling as it is lovely and bountiful.

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.

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.

In some ways, evil is backhanded proof of Gods existence.

I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses—

In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him. Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush, a sort of intellectual There!—yet