Quotes about Paradox

The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.

Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.

That is the truth about man - that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don't understand.

[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.

You learn to live with the paradox. Meanwhile, you keep looking for chances to push the limits back, to do as much as you can as many as you can, every day. Even on the bad days, there's something good you can do.

I love irony.

How is it possible to hold such anger against something you don't believe in?

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

There is the "you" that people see and then there is the "rest of you". Take some time and craft a picture of the "rest of you." This could be a drawing, in words, even a song. Just remember that the chances are good it will be full of paradox and contradictions.

One of life's greatest paradoxes is that it's in the crucible of pain and suffering that we become tender.

One of life's greatest paradoxes is that it's in the crucible of pain and suffering that we become tender. Not all pain and suffering, certainly. If that were the case, the whole world would be tender, since no one escapes pain and suffering. To these elements must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love and the willingness to remain vulnerable. Together they lead to wisdom and tenderness.