Quotes About Paradox

We made a film about the need for silence and withdrawal... and here we are at the epicentre of noise and excitement. Life is full of surprises.

In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

Life is doubt, And faith without doubt is nothing but death.

If you find life absurd, shouldn't you find death precisely meaningful?

His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.

One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse.

Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.

The first step to eternal life is you have to die.

The concept of life and perfection is incompatible. BUT so is death and perfection

This is the best worst time of my life.

To love this particular nation is to love the world. This paradox lies within all forms of liberal nationalism. A liberal nation is a nation to which anyone who affirms its civic ideals belongs.

Opposing ideas can be simultaneously true; one reinforces the other even as they're both canceled out.

If done right, kidnapping can be a positive experience for everyone.

Good morning is a contradiction of terms.

Newtonian versus quantum, predictability versus flexibility, optimization versus adaptation, efficiency versus innovation—all these dichotomies reflect a fundamentally different way of making sense about the world and how to manage effectively within it.

Love made room for conflict. It allowed for the expression of more than one view and invited the paradox that disagreement was vital to harmony. Love required accepting and meant changing oneself rather than demanding change of others.

If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.

No moral to this story, you will be saying, and I am afraid it is true.

What a paradox that is. The things you dislike the most succeed in taking up the majority of your mental time.

But one thing I do know: life and time are ghosted creatures for us all. They belong to us - and are not ours at the same time.

We struggle to maintain a dead past in the name of peace and refuse the new life that running water brings to everything. We confuse "stagnant" with "calm" and call it holiness. We miss the power of the paradox that peace is not passivity and that a living death is neither death nor life.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.

I am a ginger tim. I am a boy racer. I am a housewife. I am a pain in the arse.

The bitter paradox is that the borderline is never needy enough and the narcissist is never narcissistic enough for each to get their "real" needs met.