Quotes About Paradox

El punto negro en la parte blanca y el blanco en la parte negra indican la posibilidad de transformación: solo cuando todo parece seguro puede irrumpir lo desconocido de forma brutal e inesperada.

Matthew 25:29), derived from what might be the harshest statement ever attributed to Christ: "to those who have everything, more will be given; from those who have nothing, everything will be taken.

the harshest statement ever attributed to Christ: "to those who have everything, more will be given; from those who have nothing, everything will be taken.

The paradox of education: what we most admire we put in a box and make dull.

In 1931, Kurt Godel proved in his famous second incompleteness theorem that there could be no finitary proof of the consistency of arithmetic. He had killed Hilbert's program with a single stroke. So should you be worried that all of mathematics might collapse tomorrow afternoon? For what it's worth, I'm not. I do believe in infinite sets, and I find the proofs of consistency that use infinite sets to be convincing enough to let me sleep at night.

Antiwater would look and feel and behave the same way as regular water except that if you drank it you would explode in a blinding flash of light, which, we admit, would be antirefreshing.

fue una de las raras batallas en que los muertos victoriosos tienen peor entierro que los vencidos

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.

There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress".

What a time to be alive, huh? On one hand, we're nothing. We're dirt. On the other hand, we're the reason the universe was made.

Elegimos el ejemplar más exótico, nos enamoramos de su libertad y empezamos a construirle una jaula

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Christianity is preached by the ignorant and believed by the learned. And in this way is like no other thing.

One of the most powerful elements of living in - or even visiting - a city is the ability not only to disappear but also to disappear, as Salinger did, in plain sight. Surrounded by literally millions, the individual walks down the street invisible and unconnected. The ability to be alone among millions is one of the great paradoxes of the city.

What you get, you don't want, and what you want, you don't get. David Irving, Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich (Focal Point Publications, 2014), Pp. 67

The wonderful paradox about the truth of suffering is that the more we open to it and understand it, the lighter and freer our mind becomes. Our mind becomes more spacious, more open, and happier as we move past our avoidance and denial to see what is true. We become less driven by compulsive desires and addictions, because we see clearly the nature of things as they are.

The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.

It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.

That's one of the damnedest things I ever found out about human emotions and how treacherous they can be - the fact that you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it. Not to speak of the fact that you can hate a person with all your heart and soul and still long for that person.

And here is the paradox at the heart of the Christian life: The one who embraces suffering, who dies to himself in order to die for others, is actually happier than the one who shuns suffering and who puts himself above all else.

God had bestowed fertility on his loins, equanimity on his heart and poverty on his hands.

And his fondness of people matched his low opinion of them.

There is a fear of voluptuousness that is itself voluptuous, just as a certain fear of death can itself be deadly.

We are gods with anuses.