Quotes About Paradox

The ladders of life that we scale merrily Move mysteriously around So that when you think you're climbing up, man In fact you're climbing down

Whenever its name has been anything but a jest, philosophy has been haunted by a subterranean question: What if knowledge were a means to deepen unknowing?

Nature, far from being logical, 'is perhaps entirely the excess of itself', smeared ash and flame upon zero, and zero is immense.

Like a cookie crumbled but you eat it anyway, life is.

Poison had made the world so beautiful.

The greatest modern error is not to proclaim that God died, but to believe that the devil has died.

Whoever does not understand that two perfectly contrary attitudes can both be perfectly justified ought not to engage in criticism.

It is easy to believe that we partake of certain virtues when we share in the defects they imply.

The modern world is condemned precisely by all that with which modern man seeks to justify it.

Propose solutions? As if the world were not drowning in solutions!

The growing number of people who consider the modern world "unacceptable" would comfort us, if we did not know that they are captives of the same convictions that made the modern world unacceptable.

The fool is scandalized and laughs when he notices that philosophers contradict each other. It is difficult to make the fool understand that philosophy is precisely that: the art of contradicting each other without canceling each other out.

The theses that the Marxist "refutes" come back to life unscathed behind his back.

Democratic thinking tends to deduce the consequences of action with the same straightforward confidence as the implications of a principle. What the reactionary, on the other hand, knows how to see is the paradoxical nature of actions, of people, of the world.

Das Universum ist nicht System, das heißt: logischer Zusammenhang. Sondern heirarchische Struktur von Paradoxen.

la pureza de quien no llegó a ser lo suficientemente impuro para saber qué cosa es la pureza.

Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.

The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.

The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.