Quotes About Paradox

What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy

Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud. All men make faults.

Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself. But the contrary takes place with terrible exactitude.

The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

I am loved by thousands, but I feel like the loneliest man in the world.

The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions.

This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.

A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he'd spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?

It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.

Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.

a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

Isn't it amazing that God gives breath to a man who is going to blaspheme Him all day!

I never liked the men I loved, and never loved the men I liked.

No man is ever as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.

The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.

And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.

Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot.