Quotes About Dilemma

Conscience is the most dangerous thing you possess. If you wake it up, it may destroy you. To live a life of total moral rigor is not necessarily the way to go. It's the path for very few people. Most people need to come up with some kind of middle ground that satisfies their practical, moral, and philosophical esthetic needs.

I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.

I do think the moral line you walk all the time about putting something in for the sake of the film and not being affected by people's lives is a very tough one.

If I could walk into the 'Friends' audition again and go or not go, I have to say it's 50-50.

Could I have walked out then? If I had, Terry wouldn't have accepted the job.

He who walks in the middle of the roads gets hit from both sides.

The anti-hero walks the morally gray path and constantly flirts with redemption, and that flirtation is just a blast to write.

'Justice' is the biggest challenge 'cause it's also complex in the arrangements.

The world is philosophically booby-trapped; touch an interesting subject, and it just might blow up in your face. Some say it's better not to touch.

You can have either the Resurrection or you can have Liberace. But you can't have both.

The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.

I turned down a job when I was broke to the point that I was about to go into foreclosure on my house, but I didn't want to work on the job because of the content of the show.

I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.

Do I want to walk the rest of my life? Do I want to not be in pain? It just sucks because I have this true battle going on in my head, and everyone keeps telling me you gotta put your health first, but there's so much of me that wants to put my career first.

Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.

Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.

How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!

I received an offer from China: I would've earned an incredible sum. But Napoli didn't want me to go, and I wanted to stay. So nothing came of it.

Some things are just too unjust for words, and too ambiguous for either speech or ideas.

God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you please--you can never have both. [Essay on Intellect]

Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity the less important he feels. That is why so many actes gratuites are criminal: a man asserts his freedom by disobeying a law and retains a sense of self-importance because the law he has disobeyed is an important one. Much crime is magic, an attempt to make free with necessity.

Jake had never felt like such a fool for keeping a promise. He'd broken plenty of others he should have kept. Why had he kept one he should have broken?

In the end, we have two choices: both God and happiness neither God nor happiness

there are no absolute rights or wrongs; rather, there is less understanding and more understanding.