427 Quotes About Paradox

Just as the truth can be buried under a rubble of lies,a lie can be buried under a rubble of truth.

I would lie to you if I tell You the truth.

Paradox: Pinocchio says “My nose will grow" if it doesn’t he is lying but it didn’t grow and if it does he is telling the truth and it did?

There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the only way to serve the community is to forget the community and serve the work.

(...) it is one thing to know something intellectually and quite another to feel it emotionally.

No priest can experience repentance and forgiveness of sin unless him himself falls into sin.

Where glowing embers through the roomTeach light to counterfeit a gloom...

Paradox is the grain of sand that helps form the pearl of theory.

It seemed a ruse that fear of death should be the sole motivation for living and, yet, to quell this fear made the prospect of living itself seem all the more absurd; to extend this further, the notion of living one’s life for the purposes of pondering the absurdity of living was an even greater absurdity in and of itself, which thus, by reductio ad absurdum, rendered the fear of death a necessary function of life and any lack thereof, a trifling matter rooted in self-inflicted incoherence.