Quotes about Paradox

A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.

He must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.

Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?

Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also.

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

When we give vent to the soul, to try what grace is there, corruption comes out; and when we search for corruption, grace appears. So

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" — a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.