Quotes About Paradox

Grey had noticed this female paradox before: women who swooned at the notion of powerful men who would protect them at the same time liked nothing better than an open admission of helplessness on the part of any male within their sphere of influence.

accept the notion of one's own mortality, and yet live fully, was a paradox worthy of Socrates.

Like forgiveness, it was not a thing once learned and then comfortably put aside but a matter of constant practice—to accept the notion of one's own mortality, and yet live fully, was a paradox worthy of Socrates.

If ever you find yourself in the midst of paradox, you can be sure you stand on the edge of truth.

If ever you find yourself in the midst of paradox, you can be sure you stand on the edge of truth," his adoptive father had told him once. "You may not know what it is, mind," he'd added with a smile. "But it's there.

But bees that hae honey in their mouths hae stings in their tails, aye?' He

If thee thinks the spirit of God is necessarily logical, thee know Him better than I do.

Snow was falling, and winter had come; the season of fire. Candles and hearth fire, that lovely, leaping paradox, that destruction contained but never tamed, held at a safe distance to warm and enchant, but always, still, with that small sense of danger.

They should have been ridiculous, and perhaps they were.

But bees that hae honey in their mouths hae stings in their tails, aye?

If ever you find yourself in the midst of paradox

If thee thinks the spirit of God is necessarily logical, thee know Him better than I do." She

Atheism is the last word of theism.

'Doctor Who' rewrites your brain because at first when you watch it, you think, 'That doesn't make sense.'

Water is good, but if you have too much, you drown. So is water bad, or is it good? It's both.

I am attracted to dumb people.

Economics is counterintuitive. It just is.

I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic 'No.'

I'm of the establishment but anti-establishment.

Please do not ever stop asking--no matter what. Keep bothering your brain with unwavering persistence until you find an answer. Go deeper and deeper until you meet with your absolute self, your intrinsic, unalterable true self--your changeless nature. You cannot see or touch it, but you can feel it. If you can feel it, you can utilize and live it. It's a wonderful paradox: only when you have a changeless sense of who you are, can real changes take place.

That´s the problem with the truth. Sometimes the truth is ambiguous, or really bad cliche.

Don't you find it fascinating, boy-o, that the people who call on God the most believe in God the least?

The thinking few is right. But not always.

It's such a difficult lesson to understand that someone can be wrong in theory and yet right in practice--because we want the world to be black and white, right and wrong, us and them.