Quotes About Paradox

When a heart realized it loved was also, paradoxically, when a heart learned to fear most deeply.

Everything isn't black and white like you want it to be.

What a weird future awaited her in the past!

You know, I have always hated that expression, "a blessing or a curse." As if anything in life were so neatly divisible. Let's try this: a freedom, or something worse.

I have heard Brazilian children say that whatever passes through the arc of the rainbow becomes its opposite. But what is the opposite of a bird? Or for what matter, a human being? And what then, in the great rain forest, where, in its season, the rain never ceases and the rainbows are myriad?

The paradox of being a "strong" woman is that you are both perfectly capable of taking care of yourself and desperately hopeful that you don't always have to.

The Resurrection is the emergence of the necessity of giving glory to God: the reckoning with what is unknown and unobservable in Jesus, the recognition of Him as Paradox, Victor and Primal History.

There is no way from us to God -- not even via negativa not even a via dialectica nor paradoxa. The god who stood at the end of some human way -- even of this way -- would not be God.

An aphorism is never exactly true. It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

All great historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice the fist time as tragedy, the second time as farce

The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.

The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.

In other words, even if all that can be known were known to you, you still wouldn't know anything because none of this has an effect on what you are. But the moment you know Yourself, in the non-knowing of what you are or what you are not, you know All! This is the paradox of Knowledge: you know yourself in the Absolute not-knowing because you are That what is unknowable, you are the ungraspable, the incomprehensible, without a second. And any idea or possibility of knowing creates duality.

Nothing changes and everything does.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn't even begin to solve.

Er zijn tijden waarin je iets wat je wilt verbergen maar het beste vol in het zicht kunt zetten.

A weird artifact of the past, aiming at the future. An intrusive, constructive contradiction.

Un monde est absurde dans la mesure où le contemplatif, l'ermite et le moine, y apparaissent comme un paradoxe ou un "anachronisme". Or le moine est dans l'actualité précisément parce qu'il est intemporel : nous vivons à l'époque de l'idolâtrie du "temps", et le moine incarne tout ce qui est immuable, non par sclérose ou par inertie, mais par transcendance.

Oh wearisome condition of humanity!Born under one law, to another bound.

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting. I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.

But that's the modus operandi of fashion, isn't it—to move antithetically, almost Hegelian in its constant vacillation between seemingly opposing extremes?

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.