Quotes About Paradox

The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum

The Product of Freedom and Security is a constant (F X S = k). Giving up freedom for security is beginning to look naive.

The truth can both lift up and knock down.

the simples answer was usually true, but simple didn't mean it wasn't also complicated.

Morir por amor. Vivir para odiar. Debería ser una paradoja, y sin embargo, no lo es. --Es lo mismo --comprendió Jack-- Uno.

Hidden in the works of a mysterious clock are her many deaths, and yet the whole world is piled up before her on a banquet table again today. The timer, broken.

That to want to succeed is to fail

This is the paradox of weekends: "You have to set an appointment to go off the grid as surely as to go on it.

Some days I am all about the ironic gesture

Eisenhauser conundrum

finally I say            all right, it is improbable, all right, there is no God. And then as if I'm focusing a magnifying glass on dry leaves, God blazes up. It's the attention, maybe, to what isn't            there that makes the notion flare like a forest fire until I have to spend the afternoon dragging the hose to put it out. . . .

You're saying the mysteries are worth examining, even if they're too big to be understood. That maybe they're bound to be too big to understand, but that doesn't take anything away from them, and in fact just adds to their beauty.

Yet it was an odd twist of language. Based on the way people usually used the words, Christian was traight and Patrick was gay. But Christian, when he got wasted, was gay if you used the old-fashioned, oh-so-merry definition of the word, while Patrick was straight-edge because he didn't drink to the point of passing out.

How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

The gift of life. What an odd expression, a still odder gift, this box of snakes and daisies.

Our society needs a functional mythology of the Dark. We need a spirituality that reminds us that we have to share one half of our existence with the Dark. We can do this willing or unwillingly. The paradox must be lived in our lives in order for us to be truly enlightened.

In balancing each desired goal with the contradiction contained therein, we cause our thought to be re-born at the very point from which all creation manifests.

Paradoxically, the more we try to change ourselves, the more we prevent change from occurring. On the other hand, the more we allow ourselves to fully experience who we are, the greater the possibility of change.

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Alguien que duerme está al mismo tiempo cerca y lejos, de ti y de sí mismo, impotente y, sin embargo, poderoso precisamente por su ausencia.

Irony: a contradictory outcome of events as if in mockery of the promise and fitness of things,

Don't sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?