Quotes About Paradox

these hearts of ours are curious and contrary things, and time and nature work their will in spite of us.

but these hearts of ours are curious and contrary things, and time and nature work their will in spite of us.

don't know why it is given to us to be so mortal and to feel so much. It is a cruel trick, and glorious.

This was the great paradox of his career: his optimistic view of America's potential coexisted with an essentially pessimistic view of human nature. His faith in Americans never quite matched his faith in America itself.

I have often wondered about a paradox in American government: Every four years, voters elect a president and in California a governor, the only officeholders elected by all the people; then, the same people in their individual districts turn around and elect a legislature and congress that is often controlled by the opposing party, enabling it to prevent the president or governor from carrying out the things they elected him or her to do.

Harry Truman once said: "Find me a one-armed economist, because every one I know always says, 'Well, on the other hand . . .

La realidad tiende a manifestarse así, insensata, inconcebible y paradójica, de manera que a menudo de lo grosero nace lo sublime; del horror, la belleza, y de lo trascendental, la idiotez más completa.

Hay dos afirmaciones opuestas que sin embargo son igualmente válidas, porque la vida es contradictoria y paradójica, y esas afirmaciones son: Verdad número uno: Todos somos iguales. Verdad número dos: Todos somos diferentes.

Pero soy humana y, como tal, contradictoria y llena de inconsecuencias.

These two things fight together in me as the snakes fight in the spring. The water comes out of my eyes; yet I laugh while it falls. Why?

You can work it out by Fractions or by simple Rule of Three, But the way of Tweedle-dum is not the way of Tweedle-dee. You can twist it, you can turn it, you can plait it till you drop, But the way of Pilly Winky's not the way of Winkie Pop!

Am I doomed? Flashing darkness is pretty much the same as flashing light really. Fear isn't at all the same as courage but after a certain point perhaps being afraid of everything is the same as being afraid of nothing.

A paradox for sure, but such a relief.

But in the time it takes to say now, now is already over. It's already then. Then is the opposite of now. So saying now obliterates it's meaning, turning it into exactly what it isn't.

But maybe that was the trick—to accept the responsibility and forgo the control? To love without expectation? A paradox for sure, but such a relief.

When up looks up, up is down. When down looks down, down is up. Not-one, not-two. Not same. Not different. Now do you see? It

We stand in darkness, surrounded by light

The paradox lies in the fact that even if I do not want to be a colonizer, and have even protested against colonialism, I am a colonizer by the mere fact of membership in the nation that colonizes others. Only at the price of renouncing my own country and nation, and perhaps at the price of changing my skin color (a theoretical proposition), could I rid myself of this taint, this odium.

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.

This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

Aren't people absurd! They never use the freedoms they do have but demand those they don't have; they have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.

Faith is namely this paradox that the single individual is higher than the universal