Quotes about Paradox

That double-headed monster of damnation and salvation--Time.

Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.

Jesus was a rabbi, schooled by rabbis, who thought like rabbis. Rabbis, upon being asked a question by a disciple, usually answer with a paradoxical inquiry or a story. This can be annoying and time-consuming for those of us looking for neat, simple answers. But truth is too wild and complex to be contained in one answer, so Jesus often responded with a question or a parable.

Topsy-turvy is often a symptom for the presence of God--the last become first, the hungry are fed, the obnoxious are welcomed.

Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.

Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?

I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won't.

It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.

Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness

The faults of the burglar are the qulaities of the financier.

O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray! Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.

Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.