Quotes about Paradox
The more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs, like a centipede, or six, like a lobster. the human consistency and dignity one has been led to expect from one's fellow-man seem actually non-existent. one doubts if they exist to any startling degree even in oneself.
— DH Lawrence
Some sort of perversity in our souls makes us not want, get away from, the very thing we want. We have to fight against that.
— DH Lawrence
It is an interesting paradox that the more you surrender the credit for something you've done, the more memorable you become, and the more you actually end up receiving credit.
— Dale Carnegie
Give your approval to all you cannot understand. Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed...
— Wendell Berry
Impossibility is more possible than everything which we hold to be possible.
— Karl Barth
This speciously deep thought was to haunt Christian metaphysics: that love without pain and guilt remains simply a joke, a game.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
An affirmation of a paradoxical unity of ontological opposites, rooted in the Chalcedonian Understanding of the Person of Christ—"one individual or person subsisting in two natures, without confusion or change, without division or separation".
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
This paradox of a synthesis that unites creatures by distinguishing them and distinguishes them by uniting them—a paradox that can be found throughout the whole edifice of the universe—takes its origin in the most original relation of all things: their relation to God.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
— Oscar Wilde
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility! Jack. That wouldn't be at all a bad thing. Algernon. Literary criticism is not your forte, my dear fellow. Don't try it. You should leave that to people who haven't been at a University. They do it so well in the daily papers.
— Oscar Wilde
The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it. Women
— Oscar Wilde
Humanity takes itself too seriously.
— Oscar Wilde