Quotes About Paradox

Tertullian put it, either disarmingly or annoyingly according to your taste. I believe it because it is absurd. It is impossible to quarrel seriously with such a view. If one must have faith in order to believe something, or believe in something, then the likelihood of that something having any truth or value is considerably diminished.

Goodness is beauty in its best mistake

We really have to get going, Sam said. Can we leave the car here and pick it up later? The monk said, Does a dog have a Buddha nature? Does a fish have a watertight asshole? said Coyote.

He tapped into the Zen of ignorance, the enlightenment of absurdity.

He had tapped into the Zen of ignorance, the enlightenment of absurdity.

he realized, with no little sense of irony, that until he became Death, he'd never felt so alive.

if the wise man always appears stupid, his failures do not disappoint, and his success gives pleasant surprise.

Blessed are the dumbfucks

He noticed some flowers growing where Joshua had just relieved himself. Lush blossoms of a half-dozen vibrant colors stood surrounded by the deadest landscape on the planet. "Hey, were those there yesterday?" "That always happens," I said. "We don't talk about it.

Nobody's perfect…. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him. ANONYMOUS

Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him...." ? Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

It is a paradox. Life is that way. God designed it that way. I believe I met him once. He was full of mischief.

It's ironic, isn't it? Our goal was great. Our path was dark.

A lover who hates, a saint who sins, and an angel who kills.

Yet I have to wonder if I have lost the song because I have become the song. If I have lost my Lord because I do indeed desire to be what I will become. A lover who hates, a saint who sins, and an angel who kills.

When too much is too much or too bad is too bad, we laugh as if it was too good.

History is a blood-drenched enigma and the world an error.

Für jedes komplexe Problem gibt es eine einfache Lösung, und die ist die falsche.

I followed the curve that rose from the capitals of the semicircle of columns and ran along the ribs of the vault toward the key, mirroring the mystery of the ogive, that supreme static hypocrisy which rests on an absence, making the columns believe that they are thrusting the great ribs upward and the ribs believe that they are holding the columns down, the vault being both all and noting, at once cause and effect.

If there is something paradoxical, in the sense of curious or bizarre, it is that the word paradox has two fairly different meanings: one which is used in logic and philosophy, and the other in rhetoric.

a paradox would appear to be a maximum that looks false at first sight and, only after mature reflection, seems to express what the author believes to be true and, because of the hiatus between the expectations of popular opinion and its provocative form, also appears to be witty

A paradox is a genuine reversal of the commonly accepted point of view, one that presents an unacceptable world, thereby eliciting resistance and rejection, and yet, if we make an effort to understand it, it is one that leads to knowledge; eventually it seems to be witty because it has to be admitted that it is true.

La juventud ya no quiere aprender nada, la ciencia está en decadencia, el mundo marcha patas arriba, los ciegos guían a otros ciegos y los despeñan en los abismos, los pájaros se arrojan antes de haber echado a volar, el asno toca la lira, los bueyes bailan, María ya no ama la vida contemplativa y Marta ya no ama la vida activa, Lea es estéril, Raquel está llena de lascivia, Catón frecuenta los lupanares, Lucrecio se convierte en mujer.

hell is heaven seen from the other side.