Quotes About Paradox

La manía por el absurdo y la paradoja es la alegría animal de los tristes.

satisfied with dreams only when I'm not dreaming, satisfied with the world only when I'm dreaming far away from it. A swinging pendulum, back and forth, forever moving to arrive nowhere, eternally captive to the twin fatality of a centre and a useless motion.

Irony is the first sign that our consciousness has become conscious, and it passes through two stages: the one represented by Socrates, when he says, 'All I know is that I know nothing,' and the other represented by Sanches,* when he says, 'I don't even know if I know nothing.

Bendito sea el elemento irónico de los destinos que concede a los pobres de vida el sueño como pensamiento, así como concedo a los pobres de sueño la vida como pensamiento o el pensamiento como vida.

Ä°ki kiÅŸiyim ben - ikisi de ortalar?ndaki mesafeyi koruyor, aralar?nda hiçbir baÄŸ olmayan Siyam ikizleri bunlar.

But I also see that in order to flee from all this I must either master it or repudiate it. I do not master it because I cannot rise above reality and I do not repudiate it because, whatever I may dream, I always remain exactly where I am.

We worship perfection, because we cannot have it; and we would loathe it if we did. Perfection is inhuman, because to be human is to be imperfect.

Should I one day take an earthly woman to wife, pray for me the following: that she at any rate be sterile. But also ask, should you pray for me, that I never come to have this hypothetical wife.

Depending on how you look at it, anything can be both astonishing and an obstacle, everything and nothing, a way forward or a cause for concern. Looking at something differently each time means renewing it and multiplying it.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Un pensamiento no paradójico me resulta casi insoportable, un pensamiento cerrado en sí mismo, coherente, que no admite la paradoja (Fernando Savater)

A bull may sometimes be a cow, a jackdaw may discourse, cocks have established from time to time the hypothesis that the egg is impeculiar to the she-bird, but a servant is at all times a servant notwithstanding.

There are all kinds of truth ... but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds the emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints . . .

Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.

I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.

Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin. In my own experience, everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny, or only funny because it is terrible, or only terrible because it is funny.

I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stay's that way. Ask me about that church and I'll tell you it's the church that the blood of Jesus don't foul with redemption...Jesus was a liar.

Therefore, so long as we live in this fallen world, we are simul iustus et peccator (saint and sinner simultaneously), until the destruction of the old Adam is completed as God makes all things new (Rev. 21:5; Isa. 42:9; 43:19; Gal. 6:15).

I grew up on a farm. The worst-looking chickens are the best layers. The ones that are the scraggliest... those are usually the ones that are really cooking.

Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny.

What feeds me destroys me.

I cannot explain something that no one has ever figured out.