My son used to believe that he could look at a plane in flight and make it explode in midair by simply thinking it. He believed, at thirteen, that the border between himself and the world was thin and porous enough to allow him to affect the course of events. An aircraft in flight was a provocation too strong to ignore. He’d watch a plane gaining altitude after taking off from Sky Harbor and he’d sense an element of catastrophe tacit in the very fact of a flying object filled with people. He was sensitive to the most incidental stimulus and he thought he could feel the object itself yearning to burst. All he had to do was wish the fiery image into his mind and the plane would ignite and shatter. His sister used to tell him, Go ahead, blow it up, let me see you take that plane out of the sky with all two hundred people aboard, and it scared him to hear someone talk this way and it scared her too because she wasn’t completely convinced he could not do it. It’s the special skill of an adolescent to imagine the end of the world as an adjunct to his own discontent. But Jeff got older and lost interest and conviction. He lost the paradoxical gift for being separate and alone and yet intimately connected, mind-wired to distant things.
Don DeLilloMots clés paradox power belief connection destruction
Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.
G.K. ChestertonAh, it is impossible."
"No, it is only very difficult - so very difficult that I shall be sure to accomplish it!
Mots clés truth paradox impossible impossibility doctorish
Humility is, in a sense, admitting how egotistical you are.
Criss JamiMots clés paradox humility arrogance pride ego acknowledge
Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox,...that longs for certainty, fidelity, compassion, and plays roulette with anything precious.
Jeanette WintersonMots clés paradox
Paradox reconciles all contradictions.
Patrick Leigh FermorMots clés paradox
What is life without incompatible realities?
Ursula K. Le GuinMots clés life paradox reality contradiction compatibility
This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably also a Western European, is that there are things we know are right, and good, and would be better for us to do, but constantly it's like "Yeah, but, you know, it's so much funnier and nicer to go do something else." and "Who cares?" and "It's all bullshit anyway.
David Foster WallaceMots clés intelligence paradox apathy goodness right bullshit boredom americans europeans
It is odd that the Bible says, ‘God created man,’ whereas it is the other way round: man has created God. It is odd that the Bible says, ‘The body is mortal, the soul is immortal,’ whereas even here the contrary is true: the body (its matter) is eternal; the soul (the form of the body) is transitory.
Béla BartókMots clés paradox eternity atheism mortality atheist immortality irony ironic eternal origin matter transitory
First stage is knowing the truth, second is not knowing the truth, third is realizing the paradox.
John K. BrownMots clés truth paradox knowledge spirituality epistemology
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