V. K. Krishna Menon Quotes

In the affairs of men, there always appears to be a need for at least two things simultaneously, which, on the face of it, seem to be incompatible and to exclude one another. We always need both freedom and order

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.

I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.

As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.

That's been a huge recurring thing in growing up - allowing two things to exist in the same space even though, instinctively, they might not be designated to.

It took me a long time to learn both good and bad can exist simultaneously.

It is certain because it is impossible. -Certum est quia impossibile

I suppose I wanted to have my cake and eat it. But then again, what were you going to do with your cake if not eat it? Frame it? Use it as a sachet in your underwear drawer?

They don't have to choose either/or. They can have their cake and mutilate it too.

I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don't mess with Muhammad Ali.

For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.

To understand possible means to understand impossible.

The square root of nothing.

A well-balanced person is one who finds both sides of an issue laughable.

By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent.

I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work, I feel I might as well talk about it.

Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.

How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath To say to me that thou art out of breath?

Nature is actually unnatural

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.