#dox

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I am Dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it.


Isaac Marion


#humor #paradox #humor

Don't you know that it is only the very foolish folk who talk sense all the time? (Anne)


L.M. Montgomery


#paradox #humor

When we talk to our fellow men and they tell us about their troubles, we will listen to them carefully if we have love for them. We will have compassion for their suffering and pain, for we are God's creatures; we are a manifestation of the love of God.


Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica


#compassion #council #eastern-orthodoxy #god-s-love #love

Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.


Matthew Fox


#grace #humor #paradox #humor

Mike did not seem to grasp the idea of Creation itself. Well, Jubal wasn't sure that he did, either--he had long ago made a pact with himself to postulate a Created Universe on even-numbered days, a tail-swallowing eternal-and-uncreated Universe on odd-numbered days--since each hypothesis, while equally paradoxical, neatly avoided the paradoxes of the other--with, of course, a day off each year for sheer solipsist debauchery.


Robert A. Heinlein


#hypotheses #indecision #paradoxes #solipsism #the-universe

This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of the first measures taken by the new Bolshevik government in 1918 was to make public the entire corpus of tsarist secret diplomacy, all the secret agreements, the secret clauses of public agreements etc. There too the target was the entire functioning of the state apparatuses of power. (Žižek, S. "Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks." London Review of Books 33.2 (2011): 9-10. )


Slavoj Žižek


#philosophy #political-science #public #wikileaks #age

Glory: I look around at this world you're so eager to be a part of and all I see is six billion lunatics looking for the fastest ride out. Who's not crazy? Look around, everyone's drinking, smoking, shooting up, shooting each other, or just plain screwing their brains out 'cause they don't want 'em anymore. I'm crazy? Honey, I'm the original one-eyed chicklet in the kingdom of the blind, 'cause at least I admit the world makes me nuts.


Douglas Petrie


#honesty #humans #paradox #world #crazy

Love is such a tissue of paradoxes, and exists in such endless variety of forms and shades that you may say almost anything about it that you please, and it is likely to be correct.


Henry Theophilus Finck


#forms #love #paradoxes #shades #love

A person without her or his own truth ain't a person at all, Ida said. Anybody who tells you different—is a jackass, and no longer deserves to be called human being.


Tom Spanbauer


#self-knowledge #unorthodoxy #γνῶθι-σεαυτόν #love

One of the great constants in life is change.


Heracleitus


#paradox #change