Famous quotes containing the words absolute and/or paradox:
“Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?”
—E.T.A.W. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Wilhelm)
“... it is the desert’s grimness, its stillness and isolation, that bring us back to love. Here we discover the paradox of the contemplative life, that the desert of solitude can be the school where we learn to love others.”
—Kathleen Norris (b. 1947)