Quotes about Paradox

For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.

It is sometimes fortunate, that the means which are taken to produce certain effects upon the mind have a tendency directly opposite to what is expected.

Ironic that those most holy are least likely to see themselves that way.

The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond.

it seems impossible for all things to be one.

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

Then faith's paradox is this: that the single individual is higher than the universal, that the single individual determines his relation to the universal through his relation to God, not his relation to God through his relation through the universal... Unless this is how it is, faith has no place in existence; and faith is then a temptation.

But one must not think ill of the paradox, for the paradox is the passion of thought, and the thinker without the paradox is like the lover without passion: a mediocre fellow.

Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.

Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God.

This is good, and all good things cast shadows.

I noted that it is sometimes hard to tell whether you are being killed or saved by the hands that turn your life upside down.