Quotes about Paradox

I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won't.

It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.

Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness

The faults of the burglar are the qulaities of the financier.

O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray! Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.

Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

What then is time? Provided that no one asks me, I know. If I want to explain it to an inquirer, I do not know.

Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.

Christ is on both sides: he holdeth up, and throweth down, in one and the same act; he denieth the woman to be his, and is on her side to grace her, to believe that he is her's. Christ putteth his child away, and he desireth that his child should not be put away from him; he is for Jacob in his wrestling, and as if he were against him, saith, 'Let me alone.' Christ here doth both hold and draw, oppose and defend at once.

The thorn is one of the most cursed and angry and crabbed weeds that the earth yields, and yet out of it springs the rose, one of the sweetest smelled flowers, and most delightful to the eye.

A lot of people don't give much thought to what they believe, and it's easy for them to hold what often are two conflicting ideas in their head at the same time.