Inspired by the theme at
This will be a difficult one ... how to write a haiku (or a few) on paradox it's such a abstract word. I have to struggle a little with this one I think, but I will publish a new haiku for today's September Heights.
What is a paradox? It's a contradiction e.g.:
A taste for paradox is central to the philosophies of Laozi, Heraclitus, Meister Eckhart, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche, among many others. Søren Kierkegaard, for example, writes, in the Philosophical Fragments:
[...] that one must not think ill of the paradox, for the paradox is the passion of thought, and the thinker without the paradox is like the lover without passion: a mediocre fellow. But the ultimate potentiation of every passion is always to will its own downfall, and so it is also the ultimate passion of the understanding to will the collision, although in one way or another the collision must become its downfall. This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think [...] (Source: Wikipedia)
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| Source: Escher's Paradox |
stairs going up and down
on the same time
what's a paradox?
thoughts without thinking
on the same time
what's a paradox?
haiku is for sure a paradox
different images
different images
seen through readers eyes
haiku paradox
Not so strong I think, but ... I loved writing these series of haiku on paradox.
