Quotes About Paradox

God transcends and encompasses conservatism and liberalism, certainty and doubt, simplicity and complexity, Divinity and humanity, crucifixion and resurrection.

Throughout the parables the paradoxical teachings continue: Give to receive. Die to live. Lose to win.

To this day the Oriental Orthodox Church asserts that after the incarnation Jesus was "one united dynamic nature": "at once God and human . . ." Ultimately, a Divine mystery—a paradox.

so we could have roses in December. Someone did not add, So we could have blizzards in June and food poisoning when there was nothing to eat.

But what had really happened, unfortunately, as ideal as it started out to be, was not that they had succeeded in becoming one, but that they had become neither.

Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates

I both love and do not love; am mad and not mad.

I both love and do not love, and am mad and am not mad.

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldnt wait to leave.

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

Il est dans la nature humaine de penser sagement et d'agir d'une façon absurde.

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

Everything leads us to believe that there exists a spot in the mind from which life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future, the high and the low, the communicable and the incommunicable will cease to appear contradictory.

Je préfère, encore une fois, marcher dans la nuit à me croire celui qui marche dans le jour.

Hugo est surréaliste quand il n'est pas bête.

Only fools don't contradict themselves

The color of truth is grey.

TotuÈ™i, asta e viaÈ›a: ceea ce ne dorim din tot sufletul se întâmpl? adesea sub forma de care ne temem cel mai mult.

Self-isolation in a slum is a contradiction in terms.

For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally find the answer to our paradox; now we can understand the nature of the social power held by evil. Ultimately, the evil, the irrational, truly has no power. The evil men's control of morality is transient; it lives on borrowed time made possible only by the errors of the good. In time, as more honest men grasp the truth, evil's stranglehold will be easily broken.

I understand that some people find God after misfortune, although this seems to me even more ridiculous than finding Him in good times. 'God smote me. He must love me.' It's like not wanting a romantic relationship until a member of the opposite sex punches you in the face. My 'miraculous survival' will not change my opinion that Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short, and paradoxically, far too long.