Quotes About Paradox

Scorpios know that sometimes the poison is the cure.

This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this – nor do I think it's an attitude that only prevails among people whose work is obviously 'creative'.

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

Typical of the limitations, even the contradictions of life, is the fact that what is most worth having can often only be had at the peril of life itself.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution and it is always wrong

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.

chaos is the neighbour of God: but everything's usually neat and tidy in hell...

I have long examined things, and have found that death is less dangerous than beauty.

I maintain that (as usual) many sides exist to this issue rather than only two. Two-sided issues (creationism vs darwinism, "choice" vs "pro-life," etc.) are all without exception delusions , spectacular lies.

Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology.

There is no more terrifying experience for a Christian than to discover he has suddenly become a rationalist.

A beautiful woman is a car crash

Dios no se enfrenta sólo a lo antidivino desde fuera o desde arriba, sino que se da la situación inaudita de que se expone a su fascinación para pinchar desde dentro el deslumbrante globo de colores. O por mejor decir, utilizando el símbolo de Jonás, para matar desde dentro al monstruo devorador.

an affirmation of a paradoxical unity of ontological opposites, rooted in the Chalcedonian Understanding of the Person of Christ—"one individual or person subsisting in two natures, without confusion or change, without division or separation".

This paradox of a synthesis that unites creatures by distinguishing them and distinguishes them by uniting them—a paradox that can be found throughout the whole edifice of the universe—takes its origin in the most original relation of all things: their relation to God.

You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.

K is for "Kenghis Khan." He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

Nothing was wrong, except that nothing was wrong.

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.

real life is complicated, messy, unquantifiable, contextual, full of paradoxes and contradictions.