Paradoxical Expression Quotes

The aphorism wants to be at the same time both main line and off beat.

People who express themselves in paradoxes are in a strong position; and the more outrageous the paradox, in general the stronger the position.

To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

I am looking forward very much to getting back to Cambridge, and being able to say what I think and not to mean what I say: two things which at home are impossible. Cambridge is one of the few places where one can talk unlimited nonsense and generalities without anyone pulling one up or confronting one with them when one says just the opposite the next day.

Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.

Poetry dovetails contradictions.

The perfect aphorism would achieve classical balance and then immediately upset it.

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

All the great truths are basically trivial and so we have to find new ways, preferably paradoxical ways, of expressing them, in order to keep them from falling into oblivion.

A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus the mystic who tries to speak logically and formally of unity consciousness is doomed to sound very paradoxical or contradictory. The problem is that the structure of any language cannot grasp the nature of unity consciousness, any more than a fork could grasp the ocean.