Quotes About Paradox

We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.

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

Decent folk had to let indecent folk do their thing; that was the paradox of decency.

A bit beyond perception's reach I sometimes believe I see that life is two locked boxes each containing the other's key.

I met two or three men who were very kind to me. There was a magistrate who couldn't stand priests, and a priest who didn't have a good word to say for magistrates; and there was a landlord who let furnished rooms by the hour and spoke highly of both priests and magistrates, because both were his best clients.

If a person shows that such things as wood, stones, and the like, being many are also one, we admit that he shows the coexistence of the one and many, but he does not show that the many are one or the one many; he is uttering not a paradox but a truism.

In these matters, the only certainty is that nothing is certain

There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.

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

Once we walk through that door, however, we're met with a paradox: the forms disappear. On the other side, there are no statues of buddhas, no incense bowls, no sound of gongs or chanting, no tatami mats or brocades, no meditation cushions, and no meditators. Why? These forms and activities are simply the means to enter the open dimension of our own mind. The wisdom they point to has no tangible form of its own.

Welcome to Arizona, where summer spends the winter — and hell spends the summer.

I've yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when you looked at it the right way didn't become still more complicated.

Kau suka berbicara tentang keindahan. Dimana keindahan suatu kekejaman?

That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.

There's a dark side to everything.

Home is home, as the Devil said when he found himself in the Court of Session.

The biggest fools are those who are paid to be wise.

The nearer the worship place, the farther from God

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

All these psalm-singing hypocrites who spend half their lives in church, imploring God Almighty to give them wings like doves to fly to Paradise, and when their friends get their wings, they smother themselves in black crape and refer to the departed as 'poor'—there's no consistency in it and no sense!

Why is it that you live in such a safe place yet consider the world so dangerous?" "I'm an American.

Why is it that you live in such a place yet consider the world so dangerous?" "I'm an American.

Even so, in death the same unknown will appear as ever known to me. And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well. The child cries out when from the right breast the mother takes it away, in the very next moment to find in the left one its consolation.