Quotes About Paradox

Tikai p?c piln?gas izš?iršan?s rodas patiesa interese par visu, kas attiecas uz otru cilv?ku. Tas ir viens no m?las paradoksiem.

One man's destroyer is another's nightingale.

Dugo traje dok ?ovek ne prestane da se trza, ma to bilo i mehani?ki, kao ono žablja noga i galvanska struja. Tek kad se potpuno rastane, po?inje stvarno da se zanima za ono što se ti?e drugih. Jedan paradoks ljubavi.

I think it is more of a kind of fever, says Albert. No one in particular wants it, and then all at once there it is. We didn't want the war, the others would say the same thing--and yet half the world is in it all the same.

Life was life, it was worth nothing and everything;

Nu toÈ›i oamenii au curajul s? fie fericiÈ›i.Dac? d? fericirea peste ei, o repudiaz?.Fiindc? vor s? fie nefericiÈ›i, chiar dac? în fond nu sunt; pentru c? ei nefericirea reprezint? adev?rata fericire.

Her gayety seemed like jewels on a skull

I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.

Power for man, as the genius of Hegel saw, is the ability to support contradictions, nothing less.

The ironic thing about the narrowing-down of neurosis is that the person seeks to avoid death, but he does it by killing off so much of himself and so large a spectrum of his action-world that he is actually isolating and diminishing himself and becomes as though dead.10 There is just no way for the living creature to avoid life and death, and it is probably poetic justice that if he tries too hard to do so he destroys himself.

For ages, when philosophers talked about the core of man they referred to it as his essence, something fixed in his nature, deep down, some special quality or substance. But nothing like it was ever found; man's peculiarity still remained a dilemma. The reason it was never found, as Erich Fromm put it in an excellent discussion, was that there was no essence, that the essence of man is really his paradoxical nature, the fact that he is half animal and half symbolic.

What does it mean "to be born again" for man? It means for the first time to be subjected to the terrifying paradox of the human condition, since one must be born not as a god, but as a man, or as a god-worm, or a god who shits

we are beginning to acknowledge that the bitter medicine he prescribes—contemplation of the horror of our inevitable death—is, paradoxically, the tincture that adds sweetness to mortality.

Our heroic projects that are aimed at destroying evil have the paradoxical effect of bringing more evil into the world.

Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?

He's so damned nice and he's so awful. He's my sort of thing.

Besides, he thought, everything kills everything else in some way. Fishing kills me exactly as it keeps me alive.

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO I do not follow you. Many times I do not follow myself with pleasure.

Si-apoi, se gândi batrânul, toata lumea omoara pe toata lumea într-un fel sau altul. Pescuitul ma omoara în aceeasi masura în care ma tine în viata.

The search for spirituality is, first of all, a search for reality, for honesty, for true speaking and true thinking. At least from the time of the Delphic oracle's first admonition, Know thyself, the arch-foe of spirituality has been recognized to be "denial"—the self-deception that rejects self by attempting to repudiate the essential paradox that is our human be-ing.

capable of maintaining and advocating a stance which negated all that he had gleaned from his earlier clarifications.

irony is that, while secular leadership has become blatantly spiritual, Christian leadership has become blatantly (and blandly) secular.

Isn't it interesting how we think of grace as something less than the law?

when two become one—connection can no longer happen. There is no one to connect with. Thus separateness is a precondition for connection: this is the essential paradox of intimacy and sex.