Quotes About Paradox

Take the road to contradiction, it'll lead you, I promise, to the palace of wisdom.

Merkwürdige Rasse, die Menschheit. Flog zum Mond und schändete kleine Kinder.

You will always be more than one person. You will always embody contradiction.

Embracing paradox helped me discover that religion is a neurological disorder for which faith is the only cure.

The paradox is that sometimes the less it makes sense, the better it works. And the less one knows about the "holy" people we follow, the better. One of the mysteries of human need is that religious leaders must become more than the sum of their fallible, sometimes awful, parts, because other people need them to be more. This does not make the religious leader a hypocrite; it just shows that the rest of us are desperate. So

fundamentalist attempts to describe it are self-defeating. Trying to nail down theological

eternal life and all fundamentalist attempts to describe it are self-defeating. Trying to nail down theological certainties is putting faith in our imagination rather than in God's. It is like me demanding an explanation from Lucy in that

and all fundamentalist attempts to describe it are self-defeating. Trying to nail down theological certainties is putting faith in our imagination rather than in God's. It is like me demanding an explanation from Lucy in that

Maybe we need a new category other than theism, atheism or agnosticism that takes paradox and unknowing into account.

Somewhere between the sterile, absolute, and empty formulae of reductionist, totalitarian science and the earnest, hostile, excessively certain make-believe of religious fundamentalism, there is a beautiful place. There is room in this place for honesty. For tenderness. For fury. For wonder. For hope. For mistakes. For paradox. For grace.

If we wait for correct ideas to save us—theological or otherwise—we'll never be saved, even from ourselves.

We see God and the devil blaming each other, and cherish the unspeakable belief that both of them are drunk.

We see God and the devil making fools of each other, and we nurture in ourselves the absolutely unshakable conviction that both of them are drunk.

The paradox of Italian soccer). As everyone knows, Italian men are the most foppish representatives of their sex on the planet. They smear on substantial quantities of hair care products and expend considerable mental energies color-coordinating socks with belts. Because of their dandyism, the world has Vespa, Prada, and Renzo Piano. With such theological devotion to aesthetic pleasure, it is truly perplexing that their national style of soccer should be so devoid of this quality.

I hated myself, but I also loved myself in a hateful way.

humans are a strange lot. We have the power to analyze and explore the world around us, yet panic as soon as the evidence threatens to violate our expectations.

motives are entirely new. One paradox

I never wish to be easily defined. I'd rather float over other people's minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.

It is the kind of moment life gives us when it laughs. It is choosing without choice. A rich meagerness, that.

There were discrepancies. Sometimes

The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful

Im Paradoxen erscheint die Wirklichkeit.

Verrückt, aber weise.Gefangen, aber frei.Physiker, aber unschuldig!

Die Welt machte mich zu einer Hure, nun mache ich sie zu einem Bordell.