Paradoxes are powerful because they point beyond our everyday awareness. And they may come across as rather hilarious. Let me give you a few examples.

The world is not perfect, because if it had been perfect, it had not been perfect. Can it be explained? Well, yes. The perfect must be compared to the imperfect in order to be known. If everything was perfect, the perfect had been neutral, and it had not been noticed. Thus must a perfect world be imperfect to be known as perfect.

And even wilder: The obvious is obviously not obvious. It sounds ludicrous—but consider infinity. Is infinity obvious? We must agree that it is. Can we fully understand it? It seems that we cannot. Thus, it is obvious, and at the same time not obvious.

A third example is our longing for freedom: To obtain freedom, there must be something to be free from, and when there is something to be free from, there is no freedom.

Again, I do not say this to cause confusion—I say it to take us nearer to the truth.

Paradoxes are tricky, but they point towards something essential. Everything in the world carries a tint of paradoxicality. Everything except infinity. Infinity as such is unparadoxical, which makes it the most trustworthy phenomena of all. It has no malicious tricks up its sleeve. (Even if that, paradoxically enough, is why we have such hard time understanding it in the first place😉)