Quotes About Paradox

Here we discover the paradox of the contemplative life, that the desert of solitude can be the school where we learn to love others.

I have found therapy to be of limited usefulness, constrained in ways that religion is not, because it consistently falls short of mystery, by which I mean a profound simplicity that allows for paradox and poetry. In therapy I am likely to be searching for explanations, causes, and definitions, information that will help me change my behavior in healthful ways. But wisdom is the goal of spiritual seeking, and it is religion's true home.

This is because the Greeks had it backward, and no matter how hard humans try thinking otherwise, they still think like Greeks. For the Greeks, when you looked ahead all you saw was the past. It was like the past was the future.

The idea that there's someone for everyone is mathematically impossible. I found my Mr Right and he ended up being a Right Bastard. As did yours.

Women are such contrary creatures when it comes to sex. You parade around like scantily clad vixens but blush when you're caught staring at the erections you cause.

I want to be a destroyer that can save people..

Living is hard; Death is easy. And there are no answers on either side.

Heaven Is An Orchard Though Its Roots Wind Down To Hell

God is a philosophical black hole - the point where reason breaks down.

The best thing about the world is that it has a mysterious structure and the worst thing is that it has a grievous structure.

The existence of God is not logically necessary, and yet, on the basis of some profound peculiar empirical order in the universe, it seems that He exists as the ultimate uncreated Being, implying a paradox, as no logically unnecessary entity can be uncreated. This paradox is the ultimate question asked by God, who is nothing but the ultimate questioner.

The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.

Manusia itu makhluk rumit yang sering melakukan hal-hal bertentangan. Bisa saja beberapa saat sebelumnya dia berniat mengadakan pesta atau memesan tempat di restoran, tapi jika dia ingin mati, maka dia akan mati. Kusanagi

The world is not beautiful: And that, in a way, lends it a sort of beauty.

Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.

Good and Evil are very hard to explain or understand. I'm sure that evil exists, but it is hard to isolate. Good and evil are intertwined and impossible to separate. They are not completely opposites and in fact are often one and the same.

It's comforting to me," he added, "that beauty can come from violence, if only in metaphor.

You know, life's a funny thing. Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.

It being a certain truth that those who who are born to be hanged will never be drowned.

Nature has a pretty sick sense of humor.

There's always the certainty that the opposite of what I might believe in might also be true.

Borders may divide us, but, paradoxically, they're also the places where we're nearest to one another.

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

The Christians had an almost miraculous talent for turning wine into water.