Fear, as opposed to anxiety, has a definite object, which can be faced, analyzed, attacked, endured... anxiety has no object, or rather, in a paradoxical phrase, its object is the negation of every object.
America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated.
No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it's about, it may just be throwing them off. And you don't want it to get in the way of what someone else's understanding is. It's not really about anything. At the same time, it will find some meaning.
Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous.
I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.
My downfall raises me to infinite heights.
The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.
[Golf]is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well, and a grown man can never master it. Any single round of it is full of unexpected triumphs and perfect shots that end in disaster. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle without an answer. It is gratifying and tantalizing, precise and unpredictable. It requires complete concentration and total relaxation. It satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time, rewarding and maddening. And it is without doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.
Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times.
We shall never war except for peace.
You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.
I mean, say that you figure that everything is senseless, then it can't be quite senseless because you are aware that it's senseless and your awareness of senselessness almost gives it sense. You know what I mean?
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
Sometimes the logic of football has no value at all.
The truest sayings are paradoxical.
What's the opposite of opposite? Consider yourself bamboozled!
Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?
Truth is always paradoxical.
Only the impossible lasts forever.
Bubbles are weird things. They're not fragile. They're infinitely flexible. They're not what we think they are.
[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.
America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.
Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.
