Quotes about Paradox

The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and the more powerful we grow, the more security, liberty, and happiness we will experience. And yet, the gospel tells us just the opposite, that the smaller we become, the freer we will be.

Take away the paradox from a thinker and you have a professor.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility.

Too good to be true, I will think. Too good for this earth. Good, be thou my evil.

It's all too much and not enough at the same time.

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?