Quotes about Paradox

The sun that warms is also the sun that burns.

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.

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.

"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."

It is certain because it is impossible

Credere quia absurdum est

I believe because it is absurd.

On the contrary, Augustine says (Enchiridion 14) that "evil exists only in good.

It is precisely because He is omnipotent that for Him some things are impossible.

contrary beliefs are possible, but contrary truths are not possible. We can believe everything is true, but we cannot make everything true.

contrary beliefs are possible, but contrary truths are not possible.

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!