Quotes About Paradox

God the Son, by being truly human without ceasing to be truly God, is both equal to the Father and less than the Father—equal by nature and less by volition to service. By this paradox, the usual logic of equality is turned upside down.

By this paradox, the usual logic of equality is turned upside down.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and it gives in the long run a net result of zero.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

We have the ability to attract and repel at the same time, which I think you should embrace. Otherwise, you're just going to be, like, this Neil Diamond act.

I don't see how we can have both the freedoms we had before and the safety net that we all need considering the way the world is today. And that's just because human beings can't trust each other. We've given in over and over to some of the darkest elements that exist in life itself.

I try very hard to be bad, but people never take me seriously.

It's a shame I have to hurt people. I'm a nice guy.

I have no doubt that if I met Bob Dylan, it would be disappointing - and annoying to him. But that's why I like Bob Dylan.

Me dije entonces que la oscuridad es sólo una ilusión, porque el sol está siempre encima o debajo del horizonte. Eso significa que la noche y el día están vinculados como pocas otras cosas;no puede existir el uno sin el otro, y sin embargo, tampoco pueden coexistit. ¿Cómo estar siempre juntos, y al mismo tiempo siempre separados?

It is a contradiction-this creek- a hundred thousand years old but renewed with each rainfall.

Stille ist heilig. Sie verbindet Menschen, denn nur wenn man sich in Gegenwart eines anderen wirklich wohl fühlt, kann man schweigend beieinander sitzen. Das ist das große Paradoxon.

Il giorno e la notte sono legati come poche altre cose al mondo, non possono esistere l'uno senza l'altro e tuttavia non possono esistere insieme. Come ci si può sentire, pensai, quando si è sempre uniti e sempre divisi?

El silencio es sagrado; tiene la capacidad de unir a la gente, porque solo aquellos que se sienten cómodos en compañía de otro pueden estar juntos sin hablar. Una auténtica paradoja.

Silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.

How would it feel, I remember wondering, to be always together, yet forever apart? It is ironic, of course, because I know that answer now. I know what it's like to be day and night now; always together, forever apart.

What went wrong? Nothing and everything.

I'd never really had arguments like this before, arguments I couldn't understand properly, arguments where both sides were right and wrong all at the same time.

I can't tell you how good and bad I felt. Yes I can: I felt like a baked Alaska.

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When you think you're on the good side, you're capable of unthinkable evil.

The fact that you got a little happier today doesn't change the fact that you also became a little sadder. Every day you become a little more of both, which means that right now, at this exact moment, you're the happiest and saddest you've ever been in your whole life.