Quotes About Paradox

Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.** (emphasis by author) [2002] p.25f

And doing what is good for you is always the worst thing. Even if it works out all right in the end, it is the worst thing when it first happens—just the way things that seem good for you can turn out bad, bad as dirt.

As was often the case with the ego's script, the plot added up to "damned if you do and damned if you don't.

I am a kind of joke, but the question is: which kind? My job is to keep everyone guessing.

There, I was ridiculed for being an inauthentic American, and now I am being charged with being an inauthentic Russian. I do not yet understand that this very paradox is the true subject of so-called immigrant fiction.

always squinting around the corner for the future that is already with us, at our ease, elsewhere

Like just about everything else conjured up in the past century, the underground subway system of the modern city is an unfathomable engineering miracle covered in several inches of filth, urine, and spray paint. Despite being a certified member of the human race, I'll never fully understand why miracles of this magnitude are treated so casually.

Why is it that postmodernists, who believe there are no moral absolutes, are so moralistic?

Tous, nous aimons ce que nous détruisons.

All love that which they destroy.

It is beyond value, which means it is worthless.

That was the way life was, the way death was. A man lived as long as you hated him and died on you as soon as you began to like him.

One can't found a novel theology on Nothing, and nothing is so secure a foundation as a contradiction.

Gurloes was one of the most complex men I have known, because he was a complex man trying to be simple. Not a simple, but a complex man's idea of simplicity.

Here Rose the Graced, not Rose the Chaste, reposes; The scent that rises is no scent of roses.

The exquisite paradox of this engagement is that when the suffering is fully allowed, it dissolves.

Just so, lo, thus does it fare with us. For he who seems the wisest, by Jesus, is the greatest fool, when it comes to the proof. And he who seems the most honest is a thief. That shall you come to know, ere that I leave you, when I have made an end of my tale.

Ist das Nein am Ja oder das Ja am Nein schuld?

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more

Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness

why is it that the people who know how to enjoy themselves never have any money and the people who have money never know how to enjoy themselves?

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules

Yes, a lifetime of happiness. If it were only the first half hour's happiness, Tavy, I would buy it for you with my last penny. But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.