Quotes About Paradox

Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.

If asked whether you love God, say nothing. This is because if you say, 'I do not love God,'you are an unbeliever. If, on the other hand, you say, 'I do love God,' your actions contradict you.

For every problem, there exists a simple and elegant solution which is absolutely wrong.

For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.

A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

In the biggest and the smallest I sleep but at the same place I stay.

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

A perfect life is a contradiction in terms.

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.

I've cried out, and my cry has been answered--but life, with all its contradictions and ambiguities, hasn't ended there. The thirsty man drinks and gets thirsty again.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to reamin the same but get better...

And the end of this paradox is that only when the child is thus free can he have the proper attachment to his parents; only when we allow his independence can he then freely offer us love and respect, without conflict and without resentment. It is the hardest lesson to learn that the goal of parenthood is not to reign forever but to abdicate gracefully at the right time.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

Of all menaces to peace and quiet a visionary nun is the worst

Memory is the same as water. It is a still lake bathed in moonlight, a vast ocean, a violent river ready to carry you away. It can calm you or it can harm you; it is both more powerful and weaker than you'd think. It is a paradox.

Because the world sometimes conspires against us even as we embrace it. And sometimes the world embraces us, even as we forsake it. Maybe this is God, she thinks. This quiet, easy truth. And religion, the acceptance of it.

They know and do not know, what it is to act or suffer. They know and do not know, that acting is suffering.

Time the destroyer is time the preserver.

The hippopotamus's dayIs passed in sleep; at night he hunts;God works in a mysterious way—The Church can sleep and feed at once.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good so far as we do evil or good, we are human and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing at least we exist.

All of the diseases that modern medicine declares war on never seem to touch any of those ninety-year-old farmers who have lived on bacon and eggs and butter for almost a century. The media, following current low-fat medical wisdom, calls that a paradox. We don't.

The worse things are, the more they play philosopher. The more obvious the nonsense, the profounder their thoughts. The more lawlessness there is, the more laws. The more widespread the chaos, the more insistent their love of symmetry.