"Light makes shadow. Truth makes lies."

Paradox, Truth, Lies, Light, Shadow

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"Smartass Disciple: Please teach me about the truth, master.Master of Stupidity: Hmmm...tell me about your sexperience!"

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Paradox, Humor, Truth, Power, Wisdom

"What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the world do not come from the insane but, the sane!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Paradox, Sanity, Insanity, Problems, World

"I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Paradox, Life, Death, Existence

"GOD is foolishness and GOD is wisdom all at the same time."

TemitOpe Ibrahim, Nigerian Poet

Paradox, Faith, Wisdom, Folly

"At least I'm honest about being a liar."

Tahereh Mafi, Iranian Author

Paradox, Honesty, Deception, Irony, Self-Awareness

"The devil is a very big angel, but a very little man."

Gregory Maguire, American Novelist

Paradox, Evil, Perspective, Humor

"When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot."

Ann Brashares, American Author

Paradox, Memory, Forgetting, Consciousness

"After all, these were blood drinkers, beings who spoke gently, liked poetry, and yet killed mortals all the time."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Paradox, Blood, Poetry, Life

"You cannot identify an enemy without becoming one."

R. A. Delmonico, American Author

Paradox, Conflict, Identity, Reflection, Violence

"Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere."

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

Paradox, Irony, Creation, Obstacle, Humanity

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"That was the nature of the waters. You never knew what lurked below."

Mystery

"Your insult has offended me. If we were at the Peaks, we would have to duel in traditional alil'tiki'i fashion.""Which is what?" Teft asked. "With spears?"Rock laughed. "No, no. We upon the Peaks are not barbarians like you down here.""How then?" Kaladin asked, genuinely curious."Well," Rock said, "is involving much mudbeer and singing.""How's that a duel?"He who can still sing after the most drinks is winner. Plus, soon' everyone is so drunk that they forget what argument was about."Teft laughed. "Beats knives at dawn, I suppose."

Tradition

"I'm sorry that your mystical, godlike powers do not instantly work as you would like them to."

Frustration

"So many questions. Could she not think about what the answers might be before asking?"

Curiosity

"Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack."

Expectation

"Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly."

Competition

"It is a time of change,'' Sazed said. ''Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways."

Adaptation

"You must love him enough to trust his wishes, even if you disagree with them. You must respect him - no matter how wrong you think he may be, no matter how poor you think his decisions, you must respect his desire to make them. Even if one of them includes loving you."

Respect

"Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you."

Self-Sacrifice

"There was no correcting past mistakes, especially since he could see no real 'mistakes' he had made. He had done the best he could, and that had proven insufficient."

Acceptance