Quotes About Paradox

Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.

As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.

Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

Nobody knows what death is, nor whether to man it is perchance the greatest of blessings, yet people fear it as if they surely knew it to be the worse of evils.

A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.

Baseball is wrong, man with four balls cannot walk

Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.

A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.

I never met a man I didn't like until I met Will Rogers.

At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

I have seen many a bear led by a man: but I never before saw a man led by a bear.

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.

The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.

Who knows but life be that which men call death, And death what men call life?

Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.