Henry Flynt Quotes

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

It seems like topsy-turvyland to make reason serve the irrational. Yet that is just what it has always done, and ought always to do.

Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.

You can never say, “I am humble.” You have disproved the assertion by saying it.

A double bind is far worse than a straightforward damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't dilemma. It requires you to obey two mutually exclusive commands: Anything you do to fulfill one violates the other.

The trickiest thing about the double bind is that it operates imperceptibly, like shots from a gun with a silencer.

I look out the chair while eating my pillow. I open the wall, I walk with my ears. I have ten eyes to walk with and two fingers to look with. I put my head on the floor to sit down, I put my bottom on the ceiling. After eating the music box, I spread jam on the rug for a great dessert.

The logical quandaries thrown up by well-meaning systems are clearly something that I find darkly amusing.

Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.

Paradoxes are useful to attract attention to ideas.

The fact would seem to be, if in my situation one may speak of facts, not only that I shall have to speak of things of which I cannot speak, but also, which is even more interesting, but also that I, which is if possible even more interesting, that I shall have to, I forget, no matter. And at the same time I am obliged to speak. I shall never be silent. Never.

The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright-- And this was odd, because it was The middle of the night.

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.

Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.

There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

Contradictions make people feel off. They'll say, "Hey, you just said this and now this person is doing that, how is that possible?"

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

Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.

Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

Paradoxes are the only truths.