Quotes About Paradox

Moneo's eyes went wide with a sudden questioning awareness. He had seen the action of many polarities—the thing made known by its opposite.

As with all things sacred, it gives with one hand and takes with the other.

pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

Qué es consistente? La consistencia no es un aspecto necesario del universo.

non c'è nessuna cosa che si possa ottenere senza il suo opposto.

I know a profound pattern which humans deny with their words even while their actions affirm it. They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak, they create the seeds of turmoil and violence. If they find their quiet security, they squirm in it.

I know the trap of prescience. My father's life tells me what I need to know about it. No, grandmother: to know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.

She is the virgin-harlot—witty, vulgar, cruel, as destructive in her whims as a coriolis storm.

A kind of Heisenberg indeterminacy intervened: the expenditure of energy that revealed what he saw, changed what he saw.

To be guilty is to be innocent. Thus, to be innocent is to be guilty.

L'ironia spesso nasconde l'incapacità di andare oltre le proprie convinzioni.

La maggior parte delle discipline nascondono effetti negativi, essendo concepite non per liberare, bensì per limitare. Non chiedete Perché? E siate cauti col Come? Perché? conduce inesorabilmente al paradosso. Come? v'intrappola in un universo di causa ed effetto. Entrambi negano l'infinito. Gli Apocrifi di Arrakis

Chaque route que l'on suit exactement jusqu'au bout ne conduit exactement à rien. Escaladez la montagne pour voir si c'est bien une montagne. Quand vous serez au sommet de la montagne, vous ne pourrez plus voir la montagne.

Organic church life, however, is a wedding of glory and gore.

Non esiste l'inferno. Esiste la Francia

But how they could continue to regard him as a god after the Jews had killed him, none of them could understand; for obviously no true God could be killed by men.

Love is a drama of contradictions.

It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet i have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.

Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.

The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

I'm doing badly, I'm doing well; whichever you prefer.

Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.

It is as if a person were a prisoner, and he had not only the intention to escape, which would perhaps be attainable, but also, and indeed simultaneously, the intention to rebuild the prison as a pleasure dome for himself. But if he escapes, he cannot rebuild, and if he rebuilds, he cannot escape.

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.