Quotes About Paradox

Take your practiced powers and stretch them out until they span the chasm between contradictions ... for the god wants to know himself in you.

Vielleicht sind gewisse meiner neulich ausgesprochenen Bedenken sehr übertrieben; so viel, wie ich mich kenne, scheint mir sicher, daß, wenn man mir meine Teufel austriebe, auch meinen Engeln ein kleinen, ein ganz kleiner (sagen wir) Schrecken geschähe, - und - fühlen Sie - gerade darauf darf ich es auf keinen Preis ankommen lassen.

Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror.

that young man, like the son of a neck and a nun

Porque lo bello no es sino el comienzo de lo terrible

Some things are just too unjust for words, and too ambiguous for either speech or ideas.

It was unbelievable, but perhaps only the unbelievable could be believed. Perhaps the truth was always a lie.

It was unbelievable, but perhaps only the unbelievable could be believed. Perhaps the truth was always a lie. Perhaps

Deep at the dark bottom of the melting pot, where the private is public and the public private, where black is white and white black, where the immoral becomes moral and the moral is anything that makes one feel good (or that one has the power to sustain), the white man's relish is apt to be the black man's gall.

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

And evermore in the world is this marvellous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts.

It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.

Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.

He smelled of moon swamps and old Egyptian bandages. He was something found in museums, wrapped in nicotine linens, sealed in glass. But he was alive, puling like a babe, and shriveling unto death, fast, very fast, before their eyes.

So it must seem. Good to evil seems evil.

They run amuck; I let them. Pride of lions in the yard. Stare and they burn a hole in your retina. A common flower, a weed that no one sees, yes. But for us, a noble thing, the dandelion.

Il sentit son corps se scinder en deux, devenir chaleur et froidure, tendresse et dureté, tremblement et impassibilité, chaque moitié grinçant contre l'autre.

To paraphrase C. S. Lewis, Jesus is not safe, but he is good. He does not always do what we expect, but what he does is always for the best.

The sight of it made the earth seem unearthly. They were accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there-- there you could look at a thing monstrous, beautiful, and free.

La vida és ben rara, un arranjament misteriós de lògica despietada per una finalitat fútil. El màxim que se'n pot esperar és un coneixement de tu mateix, que arriba massa tard, i una collita de retrets inextingibles.