Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes

Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.

The heart and the mind, what an enigma.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.

Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

I don't know why we're not interested in seeing good people. I think we like seeing good people, but only if bad things happen to them. Which is weird, isn't it?

But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.

Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy.

Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

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

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

I think I am intrigued by paradoxes. If something seems to be a paradox, it has something deeper, something worth exploring.

Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen.

I love creating mysteries, but I am terrible at solving them.

But I like schlocky violent movies, but I'm for strict gun control. But then there was a time I was at a laser tag place, and I had such a good time hiding in a corner shooting at people. In other words, I'm your basic confused human when it comes to violence.

It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow, that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest.

Paradoxes are useful to attract attention to ideas.

I am a person who recognizes the fallacy of humans.