J. K. Rowling Quotes

Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.

An infinite number of real parts of time, passing in succession, and exhausted one after another, appears so evident a contradiction, that no man, one should think, whose judgement is not corrupted, instead of being improved, by the sciences, would ever be able to admit of it.

Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning.

Logic doesn't apply to the real world. D. R. Hofstadter and D. C. Dennett (eds.) The Mind's I, 1981.

In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean?

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.

There is no evidence based on other evidence

Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it.

There is no beginning to an end / But there is a beginning and an end / To beginning.

When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.

Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped and there it stayed, it was stuffed with its own self. Some fix, that. We only have ourselves to go on, and it's enough.

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in circle.

All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.

Now I know which came first - the chicken not the egg.

Paradoxes are the only truths.

My father could argue two sides of a Möbius Strip.

I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.

Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?