Stupidity is the paradoxto be found most often in all-powerful Gods.
The other was an older man and certainly an older resident, a civilian official--Horne Fisher; and his drooping eyelids and drooping light mustache expressed all the paradox of the Englishman in the East.
He was in the ordinary way a country clergyman, but he was one of those who achieve the paradox of being famous in an obscure way, because they are famous in an obscure world.
If any thing besides fondness for paradox inspired Coleridge in saying this, it must, one would guess, have been belief on his part in the allegorical sense hidden deep underneath the monstrous mass of the Rabelaisian buffoonery.
Thus we find the paradox of armed men in battle, but without armour.
If we take utility to mean intellectual and not practical utility--and as humanists and scientists we do--we may claim without paradox that the study of Greek civilization is valuable just because it is not our own.
It may seem a paradoxto call this civilization a unity.
The paradox of Divine mystery implied in the words 'The Word was made flesh,' is not exhausted by a right understanding of the Person of Christ.
The very existence of God is bound up with that part of His work in nature which we cannot understand, and, as a consequence, we reach the paradox that the more we know of His working, the less proof we have that He exists.
How can we find an explanation of the paradox so boldly stated by S.
Yet striking as the paradox is, it is chiefly in the facts themselves.
What you do now even after the flesh, that is spiritual' is the bold paradox of S.
And the justice of this argument proves that it is sheer paradox to maintain, as some now maintain, that the only John who lived in Ephesus was the Presbyter.
But the same divine paradox of truth which we find in Matt.
Berkeley was supposed to maintain the absurd paradox that sensible things do not exist at all.
It is an art which gains most, if the paradox may be allowed, by being artless.
The entire paradox of chivalry is here presented by the poet.
If there be something of a paradox in that view, it is the facts themselves that refuse to fall into what might be thought the natural sequence.
As he finds little writing about smallpox when modern medical literature began, he is driven into the paradox that epidemics of smallpox had actually become rarer again in the sixteenth century (III.
They looked intelligently at each other; but whether they were thinking about my paradox or not, I am not clear.
Whether this answer resolves the paradox will be left to the judgment of others.
There is the distrust of words, the unmistakable preference for immediate, intuitive knowledge, and the masterful use of wordplay and paradox that leaves his meaning ambiguous.
It is the paradox of the less containing the greater.
Thus democratic America once beheld within her own confines the paradox of an empire truly Roman in character.
And the Great Change came, and the paradox of frost was in the world, stripping life down to the lean essentials till only the sane, capable things might live.
The discontinuity of it makes one difficulty; the substitution of paradox for incident makes another.
If Manalive is amusing, it is because Chesterton has a style which could make even a debilitated paradox of great length seem amusing.
The triumphant divine paradox of life given and death conquered through a death.
This fatal paradox is being repeated every day in the lives of thousands.
It is foolishness and paradox to the self-centred life of nature.
The paradox of Death's seeming conquest over the Lord of Life.
And this strange paradox is not confined to these Jews.
So the great paradox becomes a blessed truth, that man's deepest sin works out God's highest act of Love and Pardon.
And it was their first step in civilization, not so much by what it did in its day, as (unless it be a paradox to say so) by its coming to an end.
When originality is found apart 25 from good sense, which more or less is frequently the case, it shows itself in paradox and rashness of sentiment, and eccentricity of outward conduct.
A paradox by him was sometimes a lie and a truth trotting side by side together in double harness like a pair of horses, but each so cleverly disguised that one was not quite sure which horse was which.
V Was it not Mr. Stead who defined paradox as a truth standing on its head?
Wilde’s aim in paradox was so to manipulate truth and falsehood as to make the result startle one by appearing to reverse the existing standard.
When Wilde had carefully arranged a paradox with a kick in it and wished to see one jump, he spoke the first half smilingly to put one off one’s guard.
Fearful doubts must have seized thinking, feeling men, at all times, after looking abroad and pondering what we have called this tremendous paradox and discrepancy, the universe.
Only this paradox can express the relation between that Divine Love which is 'both avid and generous,' and the self that is destined both to devour and be devoured by Reality.
Even more than in his other writings plentiful opportunity for paradox presents itself in the “De servo arbitrio,” and of it he makes full use.
He arrives at this paradox only by means of two highly questionable ideas, viz.
But how, it may be asked, could a paradox so violent find favor with an author everywhere intent on the exclusion of fiction from Christian theology?
The argument in defence of the paradox that it is a good thing to grow old, proceeds upon the only possible ground, the theory of compensations.
Before they leave the place, Cicero fires a parting shot at the Stoic paradox that the 'wise man' is always happy.
He stimulates the too sluggish, He represses the too willing (if such a paradox may be allowed).
Pious souls are to shine, and yet to be hid,--a paradox which can be easily solved by the obedient.
The second sounds a more violent paradox than even the first.
The great paradox of Christianity, the manifestation of divinest power in uttermost weakness, was forced upon them in its most startling form.
