Quotes About Paradox

I'd like to live like a poor man - only with lots of money.

I want to learn how to hold the paradoxical poles of my identity together, to embrace the profoundly opposite truths that my sense of self is deeply dependent on others dancing with me and that I still have a sense of self when no one wants to dance.

The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the deeper our love, the more pain its loss will bring: these are a few of the paradoxes we must hold as human beings. If we refuse to hold them in the hopes of living without doubt, despair, and pain, we also find ourselves living without faith, hope, and love.

it is so inevitable that men will be fools that it is only by another shift of folly that one might not be

Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands.

They were remarkable in so many ways that the gifts they bestowed almost equaled the havoc they so thoughtlessly wreaked.

One can be deeply influenced by people to whom one is utterly hostile

Unto those who have,it shall,uncannily, be given.Unto those who have not,it shall,uncannily,be taken away.

Perhaps Matthew was right, or perhaps Luke was right, but both could not have been right. (See Chapter 13 for the exact citations.)

Even the technology that promises to unite us, divides us. Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.

I believe that thinking about the problem … is your problem.

The truth, however, was stranger still.

My father would argue two side of a möbius strip.

Newton's Third Law of Child Rearing: For every lunacy, there is an equal and opposite lunacy.'

In fact that evil could spring from an innocent child in a loving family remained one of the paradoxes of the human soul.

call it—'Newton's Third Law of Child Rearing: For every lunacy, there is an equal and opposite lunacy.

No matter what ya do to help somebody, it'll hurt somebody else.

And so I awoke to reality, free of any meaning or any search. What could there possibly be to search for? All of Soc's words had come alive with my death. This was the paradox of it all, the humor of it all, and the great change. All searches, all achievements, all goals, were equally enjoyable, and equally unnecessary.

It was fucking wonderful. It was fucking hell.

you met this Moneta ... or whatever her real name is ... in her past but your future ... in a meeting that's still to come

incongruities

You had a corollary to Occam's Razor," persisted Syd. "I think it went—'All other things being equal, the simplest solution is usually stupidity.

Hoy amamos lo que mañana odiaremos. Hoy buscamos lo que mañana rehuiremos. Hoy deseamos lo que mañana nos asustará e, incluso, nos hará temblar de miedo.

How frequently in the Course of our Lives, the Evil which in it self we seek most to shun, and which when we are fallen into it, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very Means or Door of our Deliverance, by