Quotes About Paradox

It's always the people who don't want things who get them.

He's such an asshole you'd never believe he could be religious, but he is.

In a divine paradox, suffering is a gift, for it is through suffering that we become sacrificial, self-giving lovers of others and of God (Phil 1:29; 2 Tim 2:10-11).

novels. I can't imagine living anywhere as corrupt, overrun, mismanaged, and freak-infested as Florida. I also can't imagine living anywhere as beautiful or so worth fighting for. Carl Hiaasen Vero Beach June 7, 2013

In other words, we saved an animal from extinction just so we could start killing it again. How messed up is that?

Under what circumstances," she'd mused to Martin the hairdresser one Sunday morning in bed, "could you envision Jesus Christ, a humble carpenter, hawking rosaries at the Vatican Gift Shop?

The light extends like truth, the truth like a hand extending at the same time as it recedes. What is that like?

There seem to be many people who simply wish to be told an answer, any answer, and thereby avoid the burden of keeping two mutually exclusive possibilities in their heads at the same time.

The obvious is sometimes false; the unexpected is sometimes true.

Keep awake, alive, new. Perform the paradox of being hard and yet soft. Survive without calcification of the tender membranes. Be a poet. Be alive.

I'm not really so hard & cynical after all - in fact I'm still dangerously soft.

The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that was it isn't so funny.

The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.

You see, a secret is not something untold. It's something which can't be told.

Odd Thing to Read After an Autopsy: "He was in much better health than we expected." Well, yeah … except for the DEAD part.

Our sermon today concerns the dialectic Blessings in transgression & transcendence.

How could something so wrong grow out of something that had started out so right?

It is conceivable that not knowing the meaning of life is part of the meaning of life, rather as not counting how many words I am uttering when I give an after-dinner speech helps me to give an after-dinner speech. Perhaps life is kept going by our ignorance of its fundamental meaning, as capitalism for Karl Marx

Wizard's Ninth Rule A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.

It is said that the greatest cruelty is drawn from those with the kindest hearts.

It struck Magda as ironic that those who professed to want peace the most were quickest to use bloodshed to try to get their way.

How can you be alive, now, if you were dead?" "Well, death isn't what it used to be.

They don't, exactly. The threat of their intervention makes it unnecessary. Wizards call it the paradox of power: if you have power, and are ready, able, and willing to use it, you don't need to exercise your power.

He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.