Paradoxes - Quotes from Science Fiction

A lot of quotations carefully collected from a very big amount of books and divided by categories.

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It is our tradition, if I may permit myself the paradox, that we are never slaves to tradition.We have no rigidities, no inexorable rules.

- James Hilton, Lost Horizon (1933)

War is peace Freedom is slavery Ignorance is strength

- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

Less is more Mars is Earth Tomorrow is yesterday - George Alec Effinger, The Nick of Time (1985) The oftener a thing happens the more uniquely wonderful it is.

- William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch (1959)

To attempt an understanding of Muad'Dib without understanding his mortal enemies, the Harkonnens, is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness.

- Frank Herbert, Dune (1965)

Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.

- Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)

To oppose something is to maintain it.

- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)

Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.

- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)

In the Enacraotic scheme of things, things are not only what they scheme to be, but are, or can be (among other things), precisely the opposite.

- John Heidenry, ''The Counterpoint of View'' (1972)

''I suppose,'' he says aloud, ''it's possible that in some sense we are not here.''

- James Tiptree, Jr., ''Houston, Houston, Do You Read?'' (1976)

To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement. This is a paradox; whoever defeats a segment of the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus, imposing its form on its enemies. Thereby it becomes its enemies.

- Philip K. Dick, Valis (1981)