Lulu Quotes

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

The truth often sounds paradoxical.

Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.

I think the world is always improving and always not improving. I think that both are simultaneously happening all the time. I don't think it's one motion unfortunately - I wish we could say it's better, better, better - but I think it's better, bad, better, bad - you know?

We can love completely what we cannot completely understand.

Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.

Life is everything and nothing all at once.

My style is ambiguous and lucid.

Man must become better and more evil.

Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.

Sometimes a simple question could have a complicated answer.

I guess it's just another one of life's little mysteries." "I'm tired of mysteries." "Yeah? I think they add a kind of zest to the world. Like salt in a stew.

Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.

I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.

A woman, like a cross-eyed man, looks one way, but goes another--hence her mysteriousness.

All blessings are mixed blessings.

With knowledge grows doubt.

Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

The world never stops unmaking what the world never stops making. But who says the world has to make sense?

How much I love every thing that is decided and open!

It's all very simple, or else it's all very complex, or perhaps it's neither, or both.

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.

Yes. The way people behave, the paradoxes, the contradictions. All these things we have to live with and still pretend that everything is only black or white. That, I think, is the most interesting thing in human nature. The fact that we have to do one thing and pretend something else. That’s when it becomes very interesting. If you can literally speak the way you feel, then it’s not interesting anymore. It’s when you have to lie that it becomes interesting.