Paradox Quotes

"A philosopher is someone who won't take your watch away to tell you what time it is" "How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?" "Even snakes are afraid of snakes." "If you were to try to fail, and you succeed, which have you done?" "The more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love." "A joke is a very serious thing" "Whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises" "A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel." "Better a witty fool than a foolish wit" "Jesters do oft prove prophets." "The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother and become fully independent" "Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you" "The paradox is one of our most valuable spiritual possessions" "Half the people you know are below average." "There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism" "I am an optimist, even though I am not daunted by the contradictions and the nightmare future that is emerging." "To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another" "Right now I'm having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before." "It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion" "The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything"