Quotes about Paradox

This is the beautiful paradox of the Child Who made His mother; the mother, too, was only a child.

I want to be ignorant of everything in the world — everything but You, dear Jesus. And then, by the strangest of strange paradoxes, I shall be wise!

You are not the worst girl in the city of New York; the worst girl in the city of New York says that she is the best girl in the city of New York." She did not understand the paradox.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if you know the teachings of Carl Jung. It has to have emotional content and all the themes of a great story: mystery, magic, adventure, intrigue, conflicts, contradiction, paradox.

The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and the more powerful we grow, the more security, liberty, and happiness we will experience. And yet, the gospel tells us just the opposite, that the smaller we become, the freer we will be.

Take away the paradox from a thinker and you have a professor.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility.

Too good to be true, I will think. Too good for this earth. Good, be thou my evil.

It's all too much and not enough at the same time.