Quotes About Paradox

You know what appeals to me about philosophy? Nobody wins.

My logical mind simply can't make sense of the ability to see things before they even happen. However, experience has shown me that there is a lot more to reality than that which is generally considered "logical.

That's libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

Love is life's greatest paradox—in order to truly understand and appreciate what true love is, you oftentimes must experience what love isn't. But once you receive this revelation and begin to comprehend what it means to Love, you will find that vulnerability is an indispensable element.

Yes, that's what I meant to say. If this seems a bit circular to you, well, it is, but it has deep meaning.

Warping begets warping in a nonlinear, self-bootstrapping manner. This is a fundamental feature of Einstein's relativistic laws, and so different from everyday experience. It's somewhat like a hypothetical science-fiction character who goes backward in time and gives birth to herself.

Where would you even look for evidence of a reality that by your own argument can't exist?

Never forget: we walk on hell, gazing at flowers.

Mondo di sofferenza: eppure i ciliegi sono in fiore!

He who is neither human nor demon is not the dawn nor the dusk.

So beautiful... I can see hell.

Yes, just like those flowers. There's something strained, but there's beauty in that. Something like that

By being what only I can be, I give humanity what only I can give. It is my uniqueness that allows me to contribute something unique to the universal heritage of humankind. I sum up the Jewish imperative, very simply—and it has been like this since the days of Abraham: to be true to your faith is a blessing to others regardless of their faith. That's the big paradox when you really reach the very depth of particularity.

Perhaps love's greatest gift--that it is indeed unconditional--is also its greatest curse.

God is not a statistical truth, hence it is just as stupid to try to prove the existence of God as to deny him. Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

It becomes easier for me to accept myself as a decidedly imperfect person, who by no means functions at all times in the way in which I would like to function. This must seem to some like a very strange direction in which to move. It seems to me to have value because the curious paradox is that when I accept myself as I am, then I change.

It seems to me to have value because the curious paradox is that when I accept myself as I am, then I change.

As humans are at once both righteous and sinful, so human existence is at once both heartbreaking and hilarious.

Why is there always a secret singingWhen a lawyer cashes in?Why does a hearse horse snickerHauling a lawyer away?

History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it.

Rossiter said that conservatism had a "high duty to maintain its historic links with American liberalism," and vice versa. "The American, like his tradition, is deeply liberal, deeply conservative," Rossiter wrote. "If this is a paradox, so, too, is America

There are two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.

Most people do not act consistently.