Quotes about Paradox
My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.
- Joseph Addison
Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.
- George Bernard Shaw
The nature of the spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty.
- Oswald Chambers
It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.
- Anonymous
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
- Anonymous
Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.
- Anonymous
Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
- Anonymous
He's not a Republican, he's a Republican't.
- Anonymous
He would flay the fox, say the ape's paternoster, return to his sheep, and turn the hogs to the hay. He would beat the dogs before the lion, put the plough before the oxen, and claw where it did not itch.
- Francois Rabelais
But so often, things of great beauty are full of great corruption.
- Francine Rivers
The abyss remains. It is pregnant with all the things yet to be. Ah, what gentle violence!
- Frank Herbert
Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why? leads inexorably to paradox. How? traps you in a universe of cause and effect. Both deny the infinite.
- Frank Herbert