Quotes about Paradox
Your Worst Enemy Could Be Your Best Friend && Your Best Friend Your Worst Enemy
— Bob Marley
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
— Helen Keller
We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God.
— St. Augustine
And I confess to Thee, O Lord, that I yet know not what time is, and again I confess unto Thee, O Lord, that I know that I speak this in time, and that having long spoken of time, that very "long" is not long, but by the pause of time. How then know I this, seeing I know not what time is? or is it perchance that I know not how to express what I know?
— St. Augustine
But to say there was a time when time was not, is as absurd as to say there was a man when there was no man.
— St. Augustine
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
— St. Augustine
The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.
— St. Augustine
The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.
— Jack Kerouac
That is the truth about man - that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don't understand.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.
— GK Chesterton
You learn to live with the paradox. Meanwhile, you keep looking for chances to push the limits back, to do as much as you can as many as you can, every day. Even on the bad days, there's something good you can do.
— Bill Clinton
How is it possible to hold such anger against something you don't believe in?
— Francine Rivers