Quotes About Paradox

Therefore the man whom the prophet here calls blessed is unanimously declared by the world to be the most wretched of all, as Isaiah looked upon Christ, the Head and Model of the blessed, whom he calls the lowest of all (Is. 53:3).

For so it usually happens in the world. Righteous men are regarded as sinners and vice versa.

There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.

It's a time of great paradox: we want to live forever but seem intent on executing the earth.

It was like the old riddle: How did the man get out of the room with no windows and no doors? Well, the answer was: The same way he got in there.

Truth leads to Freedom, yet freedom does not necessarily lead to truth.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

If you go flying back through time and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it's probably best to avoid eye contact.

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?

Instead of a trap door, what about a trap window? The guy looks out it, and if he leans too far, he falls out. Wait. I guess that's like a regular window.

Should I understand that love is the reverse of out life, that it is death?

Death is reflected as either the greatest Evil or it becomes the greatest Saviour. And we get to the same conclusion, namely that Salvation consists of Death!

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

Each soul which believes it is its own eternal evil will eternally seek its good, but the great paradox is that in order to find each other one should look for the Good and the other for the Evil because they cannot both have the same sense because they are the opposite of each other.

For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it.

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

People Trample Over Flowers, Yet Only To Embrace A Cactus.

In love all the contradiction of existence merge themselves and are lost. Only in love are unity and duality not at variance. Love must be one and two at the same time. Only love is motion and rest in one. Our heart ever changes its place till it fin

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity

That's the nature of women not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

In love, the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.