Quotes about Paradox
Man is both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind and far-seeing. He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit; and is involved in both freedom and necessity.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
— Cormac McCarthy
A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.
— George Bernard Shaw
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.
— Oscar Wilde
Man has always been his own most vexing problem.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Man is always worse than most people suspect, but also generally better than most people dream.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.
— Henry David Thoreau
Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
— Will Rogers
I'd like to live like a poor man - only with lots of money.
— Pablo Picasso
The lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
— Aldous Huxley
He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.
— St. Augustine