Paradox Quotes

“Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face.”

“My only wish is to be a mediocrity. This is always possible. I am not a mediocrity.”

“I am a deeply superficial person.”

“The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.”

“The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.”

“Peacekeeping is not a job for soldiers, but only soldiers can do it.”

“Poverty is the mother of health.”

“That's the paradox of the south: grace and violence, hospitality and cruelty, living side-by-side, unseen, until they erupt.”

“Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.”

“Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.”

“It's no good, I'm a cynical idealist.”

“The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.”

“I'm a deeply closeted gay man. I'm not gay, but I'm deeply closeted.”

“Hope is a memory of the future.”

“The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.”

“What is freedom? The power to choose our own chains.”

“The more I tried to control, the less I was in control.”

“The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.”

“Art is too serious to be taken seriously.”

“His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.”