From R.H. Blyth: “Truth is expressible only in the form of a paradox. What is not paradoxical, is not true; is not living, inexpressible truth. Denial is the only way to answer, blasphemy the only praise.”
Tag Archives: life
Quote of the day 03/23/25
From R.H. Blyth: “…we have, not, ‘Though it changes, it is the same,’ which is intellectually understandable, but, ‘The more it changes, the more it is the same.’ This touch of life, of genius, of inspiration, of Zen, of something beyond logic and rationality, gives us a strange feeling of freedom and power.”
Quote of the day 03/21/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Zeno of Eleanor showed that things cannot move, a moving arrow is an illusion, Achilles can never overtake the tortoise. But here again life solves the problem by living. We come into existence and go out of it, things move, things overtake other things.”
Quote of the day 03/19/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Reason grips life with a stranglehold, but life says, ‘To win, is to lose,’ and as in Judo, uses the power of the enemy to escape from it.”
Quote of the day 03/16/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Sometimes the truth slides so gently into our minds that we are hardly aware of it.”
Quote of the day 03/11/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Paradoxes are the bright banners of the liberty of the mind. They proclaim that the mind is free to bestow or withhold values.”
Quote of the day 03/05/25
From Francis Bacon: “He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.”
Quote of the day 03/04/25
From Francis Bacon: “Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.”
Quote of the day 02/26/25
From Francis Bacon: “If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.”
Quote of the day 02/25/25
From Francis Bacon: “There are two ways of spreading light..to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
