Quotes about Paradox

It was Gwynplaine's laugh which created the laughter of others, yet he did not laugh himself. His face laughed; his thoughts did not. The extraordinary face which chance or a special and weird industry had fashioned for him, laughed alone. Gwynplaine had nothing to do with it.

It's a vicious circle, people are going deaf because music is played louder and louder. But because they're going deaf it has to be played louder still.

Franz could not accept that the fact that the glory of the Grand March was equal to the comic vanity of its marchers.

Is heaviness truly deplorable and lightness splendid?

I am two fools I know for loving and saying so.

The Resurrection is the emergence of the necessity of giving glory to God: the reckoning with what is unknown and unobservable in Jesus, the recognition of Him as Paradox, Victor and Primal History.

There is no way from us to God -- not even via negativa not even a via dialectica nor paradoxa. The god who stood at the end of some human way -- even of this way -- would not be God.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories. Now

Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories.