Quotes About Paradox

The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing.

Its inhabitants are, as the man once said, "whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches," by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, "Saints and angels and martyrs and holy men," and he would have meant the same thing.

There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.

I like middles. . . It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

A writer of fiction, a professional liar, is paradoxically obsessed with what is true.

Nature kills constantly, and we call her beautiful.

An omniscient being could not be ignorant of anything, so an omniscient being would not know something. He could not know ignorance.

Faith is irrational, which is why those who exercise it are rewarded irrationally.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.

Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.

Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

You gave me your curse, holy Fathers. I give you a blessing: May you be as moral and religious as I am.

It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.

Analysis takes back with one hand what it gives with the other. I recoil in fear and loathing from that deplorable evil: continuous functions with no derivatives.

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

To fear and not be afraid- that is the paradox of faith.

Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died.

One of lifes sharpest paradoxes is that our brightest future hinges on our ability to pay attention to what were doing right now, today.

Sometimes we hate the person we love the most and yet we can't stop loving them. We might push them away at times and yet we can't live without them either. Love, life, and reality can really change any person out there.

Fridge full of food - Nothing to eat. Wardrobe full of clothes - Nothing to wear. Internet full of sites - only on Facebook.

Life has 3 rules, paradox, humor, and change.

Life's a paradox. What you want, you don't get; what you get, you don't enjoy; what you enjoy isn't permanent; what is permanent, is boring...that's life!