Quotes About Paradox

It's an incredible paradox that being a doctor is so degrading and yet is so valued by society

I play out the cards. They say: This is Heaven, this is Hell. It is one.

Well, Earwig, there's not much about love that does make sense.

It's a beautiful paradox: In order to remember, we have to forget to some degree.

Scientists discovered these "forgetting" neurons in 2019, which helps us further understand the importance of sleep—and the merits of forgetting. It's a beautiful paradox: In order to remember, we have to forget to some degree.

Vivo sin vivir en mí... muero porque no muero. (I live without really being alive... I die because I am not dying.)

Bukankah langit kosong tetapi isi? Dan bukankah hatimu penuh dengan isi tetapi kosong?

Enter Madeleine. Here was a Christian author who could function quite unperturbedly from inside paradox, who dared to question the assumption that all things must be either/or. Why can't it be both/and? What is this nonsense about "secular"? Why can't God use those things if God wants to? Why can't God speak through this or that person (if God can speak through a donkey, for instance)? Who says?

It seems the more we try to fix the world, the more we break it.

But time does not disclose its secrets to humankind, and the possible turned impossible.

It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity.

In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice... No one can live in the light all the time.

In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time.

A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

When I finally invent a time machine you will already know about it because I'll have told you a long time ago.

Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that we approve of at another time.

To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been.

One paper says I'm Catholic and the other says I'm Jewish. I guess that's fitting because as a Methodist I'm meant to be undetermined some of the time.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.

As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.