Quotes About Paradox

mas nem a alma de um homem é tão estreita que não caibam nela coisas contrárias,..

Infelizmente não há bonito sem senão, nem prazer sem amargura. Que mel não deixa um travo de veneno?

Não há mal que não traga um pouco de bem, e por isso é que o mal é útil, muita vez indispensável, alguma vez delicioso

Não, insistiu o Tenente Porfírio. Repare que para cada provérbio afirmando uma coisa, há outro provérbio afirmando a coisa contrária. Os provérbios mentem.

Ah! trapeze of my sins, trapeze of abstruse conceptions

The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle. Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being.

When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things.

I found myself earnestly explaining to the young minister that I did not believe in God, 'but I've discovered that I can't live as though I didn't believe in him. As long as I don't need to say any more than that I try to live as though I believe in God, I would very much like to come to church--if you'll let me.

And another lovely paradox: we can be humble only when we know that we are God's children, of infinite value, and eternally loved.

but music, which is inextricably intertwined with time, is also paradoxically a release from time

A man could shoot a squirrel out of a tree from a distance of sixty feet. But he couldn't vomit into a bucket or pee into a pot only two feet away. It was one of the great mysteries of life.

A man could shoot a squirrel out of a tree from a distance of sixty feet. But he couldn't vomit into a bucket or pee into a pot only two feet away. It was one of the great mysteries of life.

Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.

That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.

The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.

The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness. And

In reality, the very thing that gave the giant his size was also the source of his greatest weakness.

These are David's opportunities: the occasions in which difficulties, paradoxically, turn out to be desirable. The lesson of the trickster tales is the third desirable difficulty: the unexpected freedom that comes from having nothing to lose. The trickster gets to break the rules.

The irony, thought, is that that very desire for confidence is precisely what ends up undermining the accuracy of their decision

For unto everyone that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance. But from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

My biggest failure is 'Metal Gear.' It's my biggest failure and my biggest success.

If everything is possible, then it is also possible that something is impossible.

Pure unadulterated success is not as funny as failure.