Karl Barth Quotes

To understand possible means to understand impossible.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

Many of the things which can never be, often are.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.

It's all too easy to dismiss the future. People confuse what's impossible today with what's impossible tomorrow.

Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.

Sometimes we misjudge what is possible and what is not.

Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not.

For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.

The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."

The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.

The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t.

Truth is what most contradicts itself.

Each time I see the Upside-Down Man Standing in the water, I look at him and start to laugh, Although I shouldn't oughtter. For maybe in another world Another time Another town, Maybe HE is right side up And I am upside down

Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.

I shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is.

Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.

There's nothing like the unimaginable to make people believe.

Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.

The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception.

Either is both, and Both is neither.