Quotes About Paradox

As we have seen, we ought to affirm our view of God while at the same time realizing that that view is inadequate.

the a/ theistic approach can be seen as a form of disbelieving what one believes, or rather, believing in God while remaining dubious concerning what one believes about God (a distinction that fundamentalism is unable to maintain).

The paradox of the pearl lies in the idea that, in becoming the poorest of all, we simultaneously become the richest of all. The poverty is not then a first step toward the treasure; rather, the poverty is the very place where we find it. Hence, we can make the rather counterintuitive claim that, in the realm of faith, it is only in renouncing our desire for wealth that we discover it.

If all the heavens with all their stars exploded in this valley, they would be but a leaf fluttering in the wind. Here a tiny fish is mightier than a whale and nobody can say why.

It isn't all that easy to answer the question of why, for some time now, Berlin has been one of the most popular cities in the world. It's not on account of its beauty, for Berlin is not beautiful; Berlin is the Cinderella of European capitals. Gazing

It both sustains and kills—like a God.

Una de las ironías de las religiones en la Modernidad es que incluso hacen de lo absoluto una opción. Incluso aquellos que luchan por lograr la ortodoxia no escapan al imperativo herético, porque la verdadera creencia también depende de una elección (hairesis) a su favor.

In this distinctive world, elusive quantities flash at the edge of conventional logic.

If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.

Brüks had never been entirely clear on what an omniscient being would need a computer for. Computation, after all, implied a problem not yet solved, insights not yet achieved. There was really only one sort of program for which foreknowledge of the outcome didn't diminish the point of the exercise, and Brüks had never been able to find any religious orders that described God as a porn addict.)

Turns out that when something gets cheaper, or more efficient, we just end up using so much more of the stuff that the savings disappear under a wave of increased consumption. They call it the "Jevons Paradox"

Like to hear a vampire folk tale?" Sarasti asked. "Vampires have folk tales?" He took it for a yes. "A laser is assigned to find the darkness. Since it lives in a room without doors, or windows, or any other source of light, it thinks this will be easy. But everywhere it turns it sees brightness. Every wall, every piece of furniture it points at is brightly lit. Eventually it concludes there is no darkness, that light is everywhere.

Qué quiere que le diga? Gente tranquila, más pobre que las ratas. Aunque, tal como va el mundo, llamamos tranquilos a los que tienen miedo.

Le monde a l'envers, zise Gogu Apostolescu. Dar st? a?a de un milion de ani.

In quantum theory, words are blunt tools.

Sure, black holes can kill us, and in a variety of interesting and gruesome ways. But, all in all, we may owe our very existence to them.

The worst men often give the best advice.

The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real.

statisticians sleeping with their feet in an oven and their head in a freezer because the average temperature is comfortable.

Mais je ne pouvais pas imaginer que parfois les soleils deviennent des gêneurs, et que leurs rayons qui éclairent le monde et le font resplendir, malgré eux, dévoilent aussi ce qu'on cherche à enfouir.

Such is the paradox of Jesus the Christ in the world. Because God is limitless he assumed human form and lived a limited life. Because God is unknowable, he became a person whom we can know. Jesus is God's gift of God's self to space and time precisely so we can come slightly closer to understanding God and to understanding ourselves in relation to God.

To Marcel Duchamp's blithe "There is no solution, because there is no problem," the Japanese visual artist Shigeko Kubota replied, "There is no problem, because there is no solution.

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. / The honest thief, the tender murderer, / The superstitious atheist.

Ed era sempre chiaro che, per vivere, m'era necessario non vivere, restare ingenuo, ignaro.