Quotes About Paradox

Kind of paradoxically, men are very open minded or very even handed with their votes of women.

Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.

Well, I guess I am about the livest dead man you ever saw; although I was once asked to accept a coffin.

For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right

Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to his wishes he carelessly gave him the gift of laughter.

Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.

Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

"Evil men have no songs." How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?

'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

Man must become better and more evil.

For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is incompossible.

Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!

The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites.

What kind of man refers to himself as safely dead?

How can a living man be a person who has nothing to lose? This is very absurd! Even a dead man has something to lose: His coffin!

If an invisible man catches on fire, can you see him burn?

You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.

...things I had come to find humor in would make your honest man swoon.

The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.

Man has always been his own most vexing problem.

Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.

Before man's fall the rose was born,St. Ambrose says, without the thorn;But for man's fault then was the thornWithout the fragrant rose-bud born; But ne'er the rose without the thorn.

The paradox of knowledge is not confined to the small, atomic scale; on the contrary, it is as cogent on the scale of man, and even of the stars.