Quotes About Paradox

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

Yet what is impossible in logic becomes true in life, and the contradiction lodged within the soul tears it to shreds.

God can only be present in creation under the form of absence.

We have to believe in a God who is like the true God in everything except that he does not exist, for we have not reached the point where God exists.

Comme la pensée collective ne peut exister comme pensée, elle passe dans les choses (signes, machines...). D'où ce paradoxe : c'est la chose qui pense et l'homme qui est réduit à l'état de chose

Is it just possible,' he sighed, 'that the most vigorous and boldest idealists have been the worst enemies of human progress instead of its greatest creators?

Ironic, huh? To keep that part of me alive, I have to be close to that which kills it.

There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness

One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker's passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

Then faith's paradox is this: that the single individual is higher than the universal, that the single individual determines his relation to the universal through his relation to God, not his relation to God through his relation through the universal... Unless this is how it is, faith has no place in existence; and faith is then a temptation.

Faith begins precisely where thinking leaves off

But one must not think ill of the paradox, for the paradox is the passion of thought, and the thinker without the paradox is like the lover without passion: a mediocre fellow.

if god loves me, he is my mortal enemy

This is the profound secret of innocence, that at the same time it is dread.

Life really is a series of contrasts.

Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle.

You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.

We die, because we live.

When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end.

I'm [going] through a mystified period of my life, where the more I learn, the less I know.

Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.