Quotes about Paradox

Homer begged and Rembrandt went bankrupt. Aristotle, who had money for books, his school, and his museum, could not have bought this painting of himself. Rembrandt could not afford a Rembrandt.

The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him. Catch 22

The nobility of what humans could be capable of, if only they weren't human.

The paradox in our relation to nature is that the more deeply a culture respects the indifference of nature, the more creatively it will call upon its own spontaneity in response. The more clearly we remind ourselves that we can have no unnatural influence on nature, the more our culture will embody a freedom to embrace surprise and unpredictability.

The greatest man in history was the poorest

Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good.

For if God Himself became man, this man, what else can this mean but that He declared himself guilty of the contradiction against Himself

Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.

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.

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

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.

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