Quotes About Paradox

Je ne crois pas une demi-seconde aux déclarations du genre rien ne sera plus jamais comme avant. Au contraire, tout restera exactement pareil... Il serait tout aussi faux d'affirmer que nous avons redécouvert le tragique, la mort, la finitude, etc..

Mas, paradoxalmente, uma vez que o pior parecia ter sido atingido, o real apareceu em sua total dimensão. Há uma paz em saber que um além do pior está totalmente excluído.

A code resembled a coin with two sides, heads and tails, which were contradictory: both accessible and secret.

One of the essential paradoxes of Advent: that while we wait for God, we are with God all along ,that while we need to be reassured of God's arrival, or the arrival of our homecoming, we are already at home. While we wait, we have to trust, to have faith, but it is God's grace that gives us that faith. As with all spiritual knowledge, two things are true, and equally true, at once. The mind can't grasp paradox; it is the knowledge of the soul.

This is not a white and black business we are in. There are messy shades of crimson haunting us in everything we do.

How odd, that light should prevent one from seeing

I've quickly grown fond of you. Despite the fact that you hate my guts and sometimes you're a bit of a bitch. I guess I find that oddly attractive.

Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.

Soy la vida, la Manzana-Rosa del Ave del Paraíso; soy la mentira de todas las cosas reales, la realidad de todas las ficciones!

For if he like a madman lived,At least he like a wise one died.

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

The devil is an angel too.

Las frases, cuanto más profundas, son más vacías. No hay profundidad mayor que la de un pozo sin fondo.

Y a las veces su carácter será el de no tenerlo

Chiar ?i un ateu are nevoie de Dumnezeu pentru a-L nega.

Life is doubt, And faith without doubt is nothing but death.

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

Y qué es amor? ¿Quién definió el amor? Amor definido deja de serlo...

The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.

One of the most ironic paradoxes of our time is this great availability of leisure that somehow fails to be translated into enjoyment.

One of the most ironic paradoxes of our time is this great availability of leisure that somehow fails to be translated into enjoyment. Compared

This paradox of rising expectations suggests that improving the quality of life might be an insurmountable task. In fact, there is no inherent problem in our desire to escalate our goals, as long as we enjoy the struggle along the way. The

Paradoxically, this sense of humility—the recognition that one's goals may have to be subordinated to a greater entity, and that to succeed one may have to play by a different set of rules from what one would prefer—is a hallmark of strong people.

Esta paradoja de las expectativas en alza sugiere que mejorar la calidad de vida es una tarea inacabable.