Quotes About Paradox

There is a simple rule that resolves all possible time travel paradoxes.83 Here it is: • Paradoxes do not happen.

When we met, we were serious and old beyond our years, but then we began to grow backward and now we are two weary, frightened children.

In ciuda aspectului sau învechit, chiar antic, edificiul era ?i nou, ?i vechi în acela?i timp. Ca ?i cum, cl?dit în timpurile trecute, ar fi r?mas mereu nefolosit, disponibil...

It is almost a cliche to speak of the professed atheist who cries out for help to God when he is in mortal danger. The profession of atheism is done by the conscious mind, but the subconscious still believes in God.

Where there's black, even grey looks white

Life in death and death in life. Could

Surely life has taught you that a thing can be both beautiful and vile.

It's sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it's real funny.

I kind of like it up here, Kugel said. It's got a certain fatalistic charm, a certain je ne sais fucked.

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

The great paradox and humor of God's audacious power: a stuttering prophet will be the voice of God, a barren old lady will become the mother of a nation, a shepherd boy will become their king, and a homeless baby will lead them home.:

So for those of us who have nearly given up on the church, may we take comfort in the words of St. Augustine: "The Church is a whore, but she's my mother." She

Christianity is at its best when it is peculiar, marginalized, suffering, and it is at its worst when it is popular, credible, triumphal, and powerful.

This just bleeds with irony.

Every blessing is a curse in disguise.

Right now I'm thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery, another was emancipation. It's a paradox. In theory, emancipation was one of the glories of our democracy - and it was. But the way it was done led to tragedy, turning four million people loose with no jobs or trades or learning. And then in 1877 for a few electoral votes, just abandoning them entirely. A huge amount of pain and trouble resulted. Everybody in America is still paying for it.

And so modern liberalism is grounded in a paradox: it tries to be "progressive" and forward looking by fixing its gaze backward. It insists that America's shameful past is the best explanation of its current social problems. It looks at the present, but it sees only the past.

What was so odd was that quite a lot of people, not just sheep but highly intelligent people, did apparently believe it. T. S. Eliot, for instance. Or Eddington—in fact, quite a few physicists, the very last people one would expect to be taken in by it. Philosophers, too. Was it possible—was there any chance—that there was more to it than I had thought? No, certainly not. Of course not! Still, it was odd. Damned odd.

I've been lucky to have a beautiful wife and children. The idea that something so beautiful can be so horrific at the same time. Beauty is a complex thing.

Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat longer for a paradox.

Drop a grain of California gold into the ground, and there it will lie unchanged until the end of time; . . . drop a grain of our blessed gold [wheat] into the ground and lo! a mystery.

Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time - so that you can learn how to do an even better job at it?

I don't think traveling back in time on an empty stomach is a good idea.

Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.