Quotes About Paradox

The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.

Yesterday shall be tomorrow, riddle me that my rapparee.

The spiritual life involves risk. There's no way around it. The paradox of biblical religion is that God cannot be understood, much less managed. Coming to terms with ultimate mystery is always dangerous. But to our amazement, encountering the Holy can also mean being strangely and unaccountably loved.

Some things are just perfect, even when they don't make any sense

This is why magic is worse even than quantum physics. Because, while both spit in the eye of common sense, I've never yet had a Higgs bosun turn up and try to have a conversation with me.

A)ny working hypothesis was probably going to involve quantum theory at some point—the part of physics that made my brains trickle out of my ears.

Feeding the starving poor only increases their number.

Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before.

The Hassidim tell a story about the world to come that says everything there will be just as it is here. [...] Everything will be as it is now, just a little different.

they did not know what suffering was, that if they suffered from anything it was precisely this lack of suffering

Actually the only one of us who has been to Paraguay in the last thirty years is the Ambassador," said the receptionist, "and he's in Wales at the moment.

Like most people who proclaim themselves free spirits, she was fiercely conventional.

Hating Britain is a fundamental part of being British

A tolerable hell is better than an impossible heaven.

That's good. Life is full of riddles that only the dead can answer," was Dad's reply.

She understood that the truth of things was upside down. She grasped that those who thought they knew were ignorant, that those who thought they had power were powerless, and that those who thought they knew themselves were in great darkness.

When you make sense of something, it tends to disappear. It is only mystery which keeps things alive

In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.

quiere decirse que rezamos con pólvora.

La boca de la Nela, estéticamente hablando, era desabrida, fea; pero quizás podía merecer elogios, aplicándole el verso de Polo de Medina: «es tan linda su boca que no pide».

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

You can know something and at the same time not know it. It's one of the things that help us put up with our lot in life and not go crazy

Every woman should marry ... and no man.

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.