224
Others have been more generous in their appreciation for the conflict of logical
thought (or thoughtlessness) and subsequent behavior. In biological Georgia, logical types are easily transmogrified, and then restored to some level of human submission. From our point of view, all is compromise. There are no tenable ideals.
Edward Teller, for example, suggested that “Two paradoxes are better than one;
they may even suggest a solution.”
44
While Søren Kirkegaard wrote, “This, then,
is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought
itself cannot think.” Or Friedrich Schlegel, who stated, “Irony is a form of paradox.
Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.”
45
Physicist Richard Feynman
stated that “The ‘paradox’ is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what
reality ‘ought to be.’” But whose reality? The environmental and artistic history of
Georgia, as briefly touched upon, is so ripe with personalities and catalysts, for better
or worse, that the greatest insight into paradox may well be the biological timelines
which, from the perspective of cosmology, form unions over centuries in essentially
simultaneous time. This is clearly one salient reason, perhaps, that Einstein was
so intent upon ethics, religion, and the cosmological as his declared motives for
pursuing science. Jorge Luis Borges wrote, “That one individual should awaken in
another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox.”
46
From the perspective of two people holding hands, walking along a polluted river somewhere in
Georgia, perhaps the greatest paradox of all was one attributed to Bertrand Russell:
“The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow
a solution.”
47
That is the definition of a philosophy ripe for picking.
2153-0645.1000e104.pdf, Accessed April 21, 2019.
44 See Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics, by Edward Teller, Wendy Teller and Wilson
Talley, Plenum Publishers, New York, 1991, Ch. 9, p. 135 footnote.
45 See Aphorism 48, as translated in Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms Friedrich von
Schlegel; Ernst Behler; Roman Struc, Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, PA,
1968, p. 151.
46 Jorge Luis Borges from Evaristo Carriego, Dutton Publishers, New York, 1983, Ch. 2.
47 Attributed to Bertrand Russell in Stuart Crainer’s The Ultimate Book of Business Quotations
Capstone Publishers, Mankato, Minnesota, 1998, p. 258. For these and countless other quotations
about “paradox,” see https://citaty.net/citaty/677362-galileo-galilei-by-denying-scientific-principles-one-may-maintain/ as well as, http://www.wiseoldsayings.com/paradox-quotes/page-2/,
Accessed April 21, 2019.
23 A River Somewhere in Georgia
Others have been more generous in their appreciation for the conflict of logical
thought (or thoughtlessness) and subsequent behavior. In biological Georgia, logical types are easily transmogrified, and then restored to some level of human submission. From our point of view, all is compromise. There are no tenable ideals.
Edward Teller, for example, suggested that “Two paradoxes are better than one;
they may even suggest a solution.”
44
While Søren Kirkegaard wrote, “This, then,
is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought
itself cannot think.” Or Friedrich Schlegel, who stated, “Irony is a form of paradox.
Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.”
45
Physicist Richard Feynman
stated that “The ‘paradox’ is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what
reality ‘ought to be.’” But whose reality? The environmental and artistic history of
Georgia, as briefly touched upon, is so ripe with personalities and catalysts, for better
or worse, that the greatest insight into paradox may well be the biological timelines
which, from the perspective of cosmology, form unions over centuries in essentially
simultaneous time. This is clearly one salient reason, perhaps, that Einstein was
so intent upon ethics, religion, and the cosmological as his declared motives for
pursuing science. Jorge Luis Borges wrote, “That one individual should awaken in
another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox.”
46
From the perspective of two people holding hands, walking along a polluted river somewhere in
Georgia, perhaps the greatest paradox of all was one attributed to Bertrand Russell:
“The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow
a solution.”
47
That is the definition of a philosophy ripe for picking.
2153-0645.1000e104.pdf, Accessed April 21, 2019.
44 See Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics, by Edward Teller, Wendy Teller and Wilson
Talley, Plenum Publishers, New York, 1991, Ch. 9, p. 135 footnote.
45 See Aphorism 48, as translated in Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms Friedrich von
Schlegel; Ernst Behler; Roman Struc, Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, PA,
1968, p. 151.
46 Jorge Luis Borges from Evaristo Carriego, Dutton Publishers, New York, 1983, Ch. 2.
47 Attributed to Bertrand Russell in Stuart Crainer’s The Ultimate Book of Business Quotations
Capstone Publishers, Mankato, Minnesota, 1998, p. 258. For these and countless other quotations
about “paradox,” see https://citaty.net/citaty/677362-galileo-galilei-by-denying-scientific-principles-one-may-maintain/ as well as, http://www.wiseoldsayings.com/paradox-quotes/page-2/,
Accessed April 21, 2019.
23 A River Somewhere in Georgia