427 Quotes About Paradox

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

We exist only to exist.

Nature, with its paradoxical twin firmaments of breathtaking beauty and extreme cruelty, never explains itself and cares even less for our admiration and acceptance.

[...] cela m'excite de penser à tout ce qui fuit dans la vie au nom de la vie.

Livrai-nos, Senhor, de todo o mal, e em particular, da ira dos mansos.

We pay a small fortune for a variegated monstera whose epidermis is unevenly colored.However, we pay a small fortune for skin creams that promise to make our epidermis evenly colored.

This Lord of natures today was transformed contrary to His nature; it is not too difficult for us to also overthrow our evil will." Hymns of the Nativity, Hymn 1:97, pg. 74 in Ephrem the Syrian: Hymns (New York: Paulist Press, 1989).

Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.

The purpose of myth, therefore, is to both reveal and conceal. To tell what we have seen and disguise it, to mask God's forked tongue.