Opinion
How can our weakness be a strength?
Andrew Frere-Smith explains why there can be some positive outcomes from the trials of the last fourteen months.
I have always enjoyed the idea of the paradox. A paradox is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to our expectation. It can even take the form of an image, like the staircase that appears to climb endlessly.
Pablo Picasso invented a paradox of his own when he said that ‘Everything you imagine is real’. The Greeks also enjoyed paradoxes. A classic paradox from Epimenides is the statement ‘A Cretan says: “All Cretans are liars”’.