Quotes About Paradox

Although he is a very poor fielder, he is a very poor hitter.

Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle.

Two rights don't equal a left.

Human benevolence is totally unfair. We don't live in a kind or generous world, yet we are kind and generous.

They don't have to choose either/or. They can have their cake and mutilate it too.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category within the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.'

The message is unmistakable; our own healing proceeds from that overlap of what we call good and evil, light and dark. It is not that the light element alone does the healing; the place where light and dark begin to touch is where miracles arise. This middle place is a mandorla.

To consent to paradox is to consent to suffering that which is greater than the ego. The religious experience lies exactly at that point of insolubility where we feel we can proceed no further. This is an invitation to that which is greater than one's self.

There are no beautiful clocks. Everything to do with time is hideous.

In conclusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.

Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.

There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't.

The paradox of worship is this: we perform these acts of worship, but they are not actually for us. We do these things for God, and then we are the ones who are changed.

Ideology is the light that creates darkness.

There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, "and vice-versa."

The aphorist sees in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings.

Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be.

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white -- we call it black.

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things.The honest thief, the tender murderer,The superstitious atheist, demirepThat loves and saves her soul in new French books.

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.