Quotes About Paradox

In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science or religion, is dangerous.

I like to play the grey areas in life - that's the most uncomfortable place to be. Nobody likes to be in that in-between state where there don't know what's going to happen. There's a lot of tension in that, and a lot of stuff to play with - where it's uncomfortable and awkward and sad and scary.

As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'.

I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.

My unconditional sure thing is that I don't have one.

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye and disappears in its own brightness. Like a flame, whose meaning is light but whose centre is dark, it demands to be undefined.

To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.

An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.

I'm a pretty chaotic person, but I'm also a perfectionist. It's a very unfortunate mix.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

All things will be ambiguous, for this is the curse of wisdom.

I want faith; but I am faithless

Even in peace there is war.

Unfortunately, wisdom and happiness are old enemies, and where one can be found, the other seldom lingers. - Wollof

I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn't accept?

It could be said that we become so much a stranger that we disappear and find ourselves reborn in the midst of humanity which is quite a paradox.

Water has no mouth, but swallows many. Light has no hands, but touches many. Wind has no feet, but carries many. Darkness has no teeth, but devours many.

A tree fears an axe even though its handle is made from it.

One who loves roses cannot avoid its thorns.

Wisdom is the closest to foolishness, a person can become so wise it leads him to become foolish.

The sun that warms is also the sun that burns.

Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean.