Quotes About Paradox

The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical.

The great difference between us is this: you believe you have found salvation, and believing this, you are saved; I believe that salvation doesn't exist, and believing this, I am saved.

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HERE LIES A GREEK WHO HATES THE GREEKS.

era capaz de rezar y odiar al mismo tiempo.

Aristotle was right—the way to overcome the paradox of democracy is by reducing inequality, not reducing democracy.

Scientists seeking extraterrestrial intelligence have been struck by the Fermi paradox: Where are they? Astrophysics suggests that there should be intelligent life elsewhere. Maybe they are right; there really is intelligent life, and when it discovers the strange inhabitants of Planet Earth, it has the sense to stay far away.

Why do I find it irresistible when you tell me to go to hell so politely?

People in hell want snowcones.

Was it genes or magick? she wondered. But then, for some, one was the same as the other

Everything that is can't be understood. Everything that's understood can't be explained.

self-defeating statement is one that fails to meet its own standard.

contrary beliefs are possible, but contrary truths are not possible.

We all eventually become whatever we pretend to hate.

Do you understand? Do you see the forest through the trees? Do you not see what I am no longer not saying to you? If so—congratulations! Prepare to have sex constantly.

But it goes without saying that Michael Jordan could never date Pamela Anderson. That would cause the apocalypse.

And this, of course, is the central problem with conspiracy theorists — once you inflexibly accept that something is a conspiracy, any contrary evidence has the paradoxical effect of making your case stronger. Every contradiction deepens the conspiracy.

People who are wrong during particularly important moments inevitably spend the rest of their lives trying to explain how their wrongness was paradoxically correct, or—at the very least—why their wrongness "felt right at the time," which is very, very different from being authentically correct.

Nobody ever talks about building a time machine in order to go back and kill Judas.

Like so many modern people, my relationship with technology makes no sense whatsoever: It's the most important aspect of my that I hate.

History is defined by people who don't really understand what they are defining

The solution to this paradox (according to Palahniuk) is the theory of splintered alternative realities, where all possible trajectories happen autonomously and simultaneously (sort of how Richard Linklater describes The Wizard of Oz to an uninterested cab driver in the opening sequence of Slacker).

Well, that's how it always seems, until it doesn't.

Jesus was born of a woman so you and I could be born of God. He humbled Himself so that we could be lifted up. He became a servant so that we could be made joint heirs with Him. He suffered rejection so that we could become His friends. He denied Himself so that we could freely receive all things. He gave Himself so that He could bless us in every way. Wow. Our Own Paradox The real issues aren't the quarks that hold together our physical bodies.