Quotes about Paradox
The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.
— Victor Hugo
God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.
— Victor Hugo
A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man...
— Victor Hugo
Clearly, he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the Gospels.
— Victor Hugo
As the place is worth seeing, nobody goes there.
— Victor Hugo
An opulent priest is a contradiction.
— Victor Hugo
It was Gwynplaine's laugh which created the laughter of others, yet he did not laugh himself. His face laughed; his thoughts did not. The extraordinary face which chance or a special and weird industry had fashioned for him, laughed alone. Gwynplaine had nothing to do with it.
— Victor Hugo
It's a vicious circle, people are going deaf because music is played louder and louder. But because they're going deaf it has to be played louder still.
— Milan Kundera
Franz could not accept that the fact that the glory of the Grand March was equal to the comic vanity of its marchers.
— Milan Kundera
Is heaviness truly deplorable and lightness splendid?
— Milan Kundera
I am two fools I know for loving and saying so.
— John Donne
The Resurrection is the emergence of the necessity of giving glory to God: the reckoning with what is unknown and unobservable in Jesus, the recognition of Him as Paradox, Victor and Primal History.
— Karl Barth