Quotes about Paradox

"I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."

It is certain because it is impossible

Credere quia absurdum est

I believe because it is absurd.

On the contrary, Augustine says (Enchiridion 14) that "evil exists only in good.

It is precisely because He is omnipotent that for Him some things are impossible.

contrary beliefs are possible, but contrary truths are not possible. We can believe everything is true, but we cannot make everything true.

contrary beliefs are possible, but contrary truths are not possible.

anticipatory anxiety has to be counteracted by paradoxical intention; hyper-intention as well as hyper-reflection have to be counteracted by dereflection; dereflection, however, ultimately is not possible except by the patient's orientation toward his specific vocation and mission in life.16 It is not the neurotic's self-concern, whether pity or contempt, which breaks the circle formation; the cue to cure is self-transcendence!

paradoxical intention" on the twofold fact that fear brings about that which one is afraid of, and that hyper-intention makes impossible what one wishes.

It was Kierkegaard who told the wise parable that the door to happiness always opens 'outwards', which means it closes itself precisely against the person who tries to push the door to happiness 'inwards', so to speak.

There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.