"Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so."
- Alan W. Watts
"A philosopher operates with deductions. A sophist operates with paradoxes. A "public intellectual" operates with buzzwords."
- Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
"We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities."
- Oscar Wilde
"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory an..."
- George Orwell
"Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blin..."
- Ernest Becker
"No one knows for sure that that tomorrow won't come, but most people assume that tomorrow will still exist as usual. This is Toba's Paradox, which means, hope overcomes doubt."
- Toba Beta
"It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth."
- E.M. Forster
"When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth."
- John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
"Ah, it is impossible.""No, it is only very difficult - so very difficult that I shall be sure to accomplish it!"
- E.D.E.N. Southworth
"From time to timeI once wondered how one wanders from time to timeAnd think up the paradox lineSpeak of Epoch's crimeOh I lied, it hasn't happened yetBut bet you better believe it's such a habit thatI..."
- Criss Jami