Quotes About Paradox

about Voltaire)...he was generally unbedeviled by any foolish consistency.

Paradox is the poisonous flower of quietism, the iridescent surface of the rotting mind, the greatest depravity of all.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.

Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote.

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

He even assembled coops for poultry, not unaware of the irony that he was a prisoner building a prison for lesser creatures.

Knowledge management is a great oxymoron.

Faith doesn't transport us to paradise immediately because we still struggle with sin. "Thus a Christian man is righteous and a sinner at the same time, holy and profane, an enemy of God and a child of God.

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America — that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. At any rate, that is how it seemed to young George Webber, who was never so assured of his purpose as when he was going somewhere on a train. And he never had the sense of home so much as when he felt that he was going there. It was only when he got there that his homelessness began.

Bien y mal no son sino los polos de la misma cosa

Todo es doble, todo tiene dos polos; todo, su par de opuestos: los semejantes y los antagónicos son lo mismo; los opuestos son idénticos en naturaleza, pero diferentes en grado; los extremos se tocan; todas las verdades son medias verdades, todas las paradojas pueden reconciliarse.

And we caution all students to be sure to grasp the Divine Paradox of the Absolute and Relative, lest they become entangled in the mire of the Half-Truth. With this in view this particular lesson has been written. Read it carefully!

Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled.

Todo es doble; todo tiene dos polos; todo, su par de opuestos: los semejantes y los antagónicos son lo mismo; los opuestos son idénticos en naturaleza, pero diferentes en grado; los extremos se tocan; todas las verdades son semiverdades; todas las paradojas pueden reconciliarse. EL KYBALIÓN

Conservai sempre a vossa mente nas estrelas, mas deixai os vossos olhos verem os vossos passos para não cairdes na lama, por causa da vossa contemplação de cima. Lembrai-vos do paradoxo divino, que ao mesmo tempo que o Universo não existe, ele existe. Lembrai-vos sempre dos dois Pólos da Verdade: o Absoluto e o Relativo. Tomai cuidado com as Meias-Verdades.

From the time she was in her teens, Sera has been fascinated by this paradox—how a body that we occupy, that we have worn like a coat from the moment of our birth—from before birth, even—is still a stranger

said, "Isn't it funny to think that this magnificent piece of matter is in a state of decay? Really, can you think of any other living thing that looks this glorious as it's dying?

Florida is a paradox that way, one of the youngest states, yet with some of the oldest European settlements. And this particular section of the northeast shore was home to a couple of the earliest sixteenth-century Spanish and French fortifications.

Hey, Serge, I just realized that 'slow up' and 'slow down' mean the same thing. That's fucked.

And for those playing along at home, we have a new number one for the oxymoron files: death benefits.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.