Quotes About Paradox

If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise?

What miracle is this? This giant tree. It stands ten thousand feet high But doesn't reach the ground. Still it stands. Its roots must hold the sky.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone-but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

Trust is an absurd phenomenon, logically absurd. That's why logic always says love is blind, although love has its own eyes, far more deep-going...still, to logic it is blind.

Every human being is a mixture of light and darkness, trust and fear, love and hate.

'Tis strange - but true for truth is always strange Stranger than fiction.

A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it's exact opposite is also true.

The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.

The only absolute truth is that there are no absolute truths.

In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.

Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.

It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Because it is so unbelievable, the truth often escapes being known.

Good and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.

The sidesaddle was designed to protect a maiden's virginity, while risking the maiden's neck. Rather much for rather little, I thought.

Nature is being kind without knowing it, as nature can be cruel without knowing it.

How did this happen? How did we start up a nation from nothing and transform it into a nation of start-ups? The answer lies in a paradox: having nothing was at once our greatest challenge and our greatest blessing of all. Without natural resources, our hopes were tied to our own creativity.

How did we start up a nation from nothing and transform it into a nation of start-ups? The answer lies in a paradox: having nothing was at once our greatest challenge and our greatest blessing of all.

Such a Zen dialogue is basically a contest, but it's really an anti-contest. It's a kind of reverse or paradoxical contest. It works like this: two people talk, and the first one who speaks from the ego loses. The one who wants to win is certainly going to lose.

There is no gap between the ignorant and the wise. A foolish person is a wise person; a wise person is a foolish person.