Quotes about Paradox
The sun that warms is also the sun that burns.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22 which specified the concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.
— Joseph Heller
God works by contraries so that a man feels himself to be lost in the very moment when he is on the point of being saved.
— Martin Luther
"I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is certain because it is impossible
— Tertullian
Credere quia absurdum est
— Tertullian
I believe because it is absurd.
— Tertullian
On the contrary, Augustine says (Enchiridion 14) that "evil exists only in good.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
It is precisely because He is omnipotent that for Him some things are impossible.
— Norman Geisler
contrary beliefs are possible, but contrary truths are not possible. We can believe everything is true, but we cannot make everything true.
— Norman Geisler
contrary beliefs are possible, but contrary truths are not possible.
— Norman Geisler
anticipatory anxiety has to be counteracted by paradoxical intention; hyper-intention as well as hyper-reflection have to be counteracted by dereflection; dereflection, however, ultimately is not possible except by the patient's orientation toward his specific vocation and mission in life.16 It is not the neurotic's self-concern, whether pity or contempt, which breaks the circle formation; the cue to cure is self-transcendence!
— Viktor E. Frankl