Quotes About Paradox

The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.

Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease.

Daddy asks me what do you see in him? I answer, a hot spring on top of a cold mountain.

The first will be last, the last will be first. If you want to live you must first die to sin. If you want to be great, then you must first be the servant of all. And the paradoxes go on and on and

Then if it is impossible both for things unlike to be like and for like things to be unlike, then it's also impossible for there to be many things? For if there were many things, they would incur impossibilities.

What is really baffling about life is that sometimes, despite all our confusion, we can also be really wise!

You know how I feel about Occam's Razor. The simplest answer isn't usually the right one. Devious and unlikely is everywhere.' 'You ought to launch your own theory: Occam's Beard, you could call it.

It's funny that sometimes you can only describe something with perfect accuracy by being wildly inaccurate.

sometimes, the more you want something, the more the opposite tends to happen.

How can that be? A great sin – a mortal sin – for which I must die and go to hell – but it made me free! One moment I was free! How is that, Father? [...] And that other sin – that other sin – that sin of love – That's all I ever knew of Heaven – heaven on earth! How can that be – a sin – a mortal sin – all I know of heaven?

Leave me to my own absurdity.

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.

The most painful state of living is remembering the future.

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

To say that death opposes life is just the same as you would say you live the absolute truth.

Being is the greatest paradox of life in front of death.

To be is the greatest paradox of life facing death.

If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities. Because this temporal universe was a paradox and an impossibility, therefore the Eternal created it out of His being.

We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God.

But to say there was a time when time was not, is as absurd as to say there was a man when there was no man.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.