Quotes About Paradox

We think we want peace and silence and freedom and leisure, but deep down we know that this would be unendurable to us.

I think I must be disappointed, having come so far, and yet I do not feel that way. I am disappointed, and also, I am not disappointed. That the snow leopard is, that it is here, that its frosty eyes watch us from the mountain—that is enough.

But if you can take a bit of an advice from an old fool like me, save your best efforts for the living, because one day they'll be dead, too, and you'll end up feeling guilty for neglecting them while they were alive. That's the paradox. Damned if you do and double-damned if you don't.

That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.

In contrast, the a/theistic approach can be seen as a form of disbelieving what one believes, or rather, believing in God while remaining dubious concerning what one believes about God (a distinction that fundamentalism is unable to maintain).

This book is about a salvation that takes place within our unknowing and dissatisfaction

In the Bible we read that while Christ hung on the cross a dark cloud engulfed him. What was this dark cloud? Did it signal the victory of nihilism or was it the dark dwelling place of God?

Love is both wonderful and foolish.

If you agree that bringing someone into existence can be bad for that person and if you also accept the argument that bringing someone into existence can't be good for that person, then this leads to a strange conclusion: being born could harm you but it couldn't help you.

But to grieve; it's to die and be alive at the same time.

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

Everybody knows that Aristotelian two-value logic is fucked.

Because her general taste appalled him, it annoyed him that he himself constituted one of her favorites. It was an anomaly which he had never been able to take apart.

Amazed, Fat said, She's decomposing and yet she's still giving birth? Only to monsters, Dr. Stone said.

You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity.

Parcifal is one of those corkscrew artifact of culture in which you get the subjective sense that you've learned something from it, something valuable or even priceless; but on closer inspection you suddenly begin to scratch your head and say Wait a minute. This makes no sense.

Christ on the crapper

he should have that cold but somehow enthusiastic look, as if he believed in nothing and yet somehow had absolute faith.

He should have that chilled but somehow enthusiastic look, as if he believed in nothing and yet somehow had absolute faith.

I have an odd paradox for you, he said. Those who take lives will lose their own. Those who kill, will die. But he who gives his own life away will live again!

The end times were not the end times after all. The end times were always coming but never here, always nearby and influencing us but never realized.

Jak z?o?ymy wszystko, co wiemy, to widzimy tylko, ?e co? tu nie gra. Ale jak pi?knie i ciekawie nie gra.

Are we to assist it in gaining power, in order to save our lives? Is that the paradox of our earthly situation?

What he did not know then is that it is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane. To listen to Gloria rationally ask to die was to inhale the contagion. It was a Chinese finger trap, where the harder you pull to get out, the tighter the trap gets.