Quotes About Paradox

Irony became the head that bit its tail and then there is no way out.

'Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.

It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account.

The odd thing about Bob is that even though he's known as really taking chances and being very sensual, he was also a very moral man.

I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

I'm nothing if not a tangled, colorful ball of contradictions.

The village barber shaves those and only those men who live in the village and do not shave themselves. The village barber is a man and he lives in the village. Consider the question "Who shaves the barber?

The place looks like where David Lynch would meet Beaver Cleaver's mom for secret afternoons of bondage and milkshakes.

Everyone in California is a Buddhist for fifteen minutes. Then they realize they're not allowed to eat chili dogs and enlightenment starts sounding like a real drag.

Kasabian is still shrieking like a banshee, which is pretty good for a guy with no lungs.

God's nature has always been multifold, and never more than now. He dances with a dove in one hand and an ax in the other.

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity.

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.

Solutions are not the answer.

Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness.

But that is how it is in the world—the wise are hung and the fools are glorified, at least while they are living.

We seem to have this tendency to want to make things simple with formulas-and yet our formulas consistently make them more complex.

If God is love, if God is gift given eternally, then our participation in the life of God happens not by escaping our everyday world, but by entering more deeply into the life of love and that paradoxical logic of gift in that we receive most richly only when we make "gifting" others a way of life.

if anybody says he can think about quantum problems without getting giddy, that only shows that he has not understood the first thing about them.

I come to you as a man selling air, And you will think twice at the offer and price, And you will argue that nothing is there, Although we know that it is - everywhere. I bring a formula largely untold, - Of forces mixed with between and betwixt. And only seen when allowed to unfold. And better felt when the body is cold. I have a map to the home of the soul, Beyond the mind is a golden find, - The paradox is a guide to the goal, - Though doubt is sacred, each man is the Whole.

Life gives you all the koans you need.

I mean here to propound a paradox, that people can actively enter into their own passivity.

They are the same and they are not the same. They are the same and they hate each other for it.