Quotes About Paradox

Busco el recogimiento, porque suele ser más interesante la literatura que la vida. No sé si es paradójico, pero me gusta muchísimo la vida porque, digan lo que digan, se parece a una gran novela.

When we exist, death is not present, and when death is present, we do not exist

All Cretans are liars.

Good' did not triumph. 'Evil' did not triumph. The two resolved, destroyed each other and created new 'evils', new 'goods' which slew each other in their turn.

The more he learned, the less he knew, and so he came to understand a fundamental truth of wine: As much as we learn about it, as much as we know, it is at its heart a mystery.

The type of undefined is undefined. Why?

The porcelain rose is not as pretty as the one that decays.

Le soufisme attire, séduit, tandis que l'islam fait figure de repoussoir. Quel paradoxe ! Le soufisme, plénitude de l'islam, voie d'excellence évoquée par le Prophète.

It reminds me of a friend of mine who was very interested in a French philosophy called deconstruction. He advertised to me as one of deconstruction's selling points that deconstruction deconstructs itself. I couldn't help responding, if deconstruction deconstructs itself, why bother reading its long, boring books? Why not go for a jog instead, or reread one of Patrick O'Brian's tremendous tales of the sea?

Our exceptionalness is not for us but for others. That is the paradox at the heart of who we are. So what makes us different has nothing to do with jingoism and nationalistic chest beating. If we have ever been great, it is only because we have been good. If we have ever been great, it is only because we have longed to help make others great too. That earnest humility and generosity must be attended to.  Ã¢â'¬Â¢

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

Thus," he said, "the Christian message is basically amoral and irreligious, paradoxical as that may sound.

Peace is the opposite of security.

Christians were free, but he also made it clear that their freedom made them duty-bound to behave well toward others. Christian truth was eleven parts paradox out of ten. This was its essentially mysterious and glorious nature.

By many measures, the Dominican Republic is a land of extremes.

paradoxical Toyota proverb, "Stop production so that production never has to stop.

Indeed, it seems the prescription for highest software productivity is almost a Zen paradox; if you want the most efficient production, you must give up trying to make programmers produce. Handle their subsistence, give them their heads, and forget about deadlines. To a conventional manager this sounds crazily indulgent and doomed — but it is exactly the recipe with which the open-source culture is now clobbering its competition.

Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

Je ne trouve de noblesse que dans la canaille que J'ai négligée, et de canaille que dans la noblesse que J'ai faite. (Napoléon Bonaparte)

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

It's paradoxical that spending time alone can ease our loneliness, but God's way rarely jibes with the way we want to get things done. If we want to be less lonely, we must make time to be alone. It is extra critical that we make time to be alone with God.

Neither of them is right. And neither of them is wrong. Prophecies are strange things. Their words are never clear.

What is greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it, you'll die?

All I say cancels out, I'll have said nothing.