Edward Young Quotes

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

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

And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.

Nobody's all good or bad, and nobody's all light or dark. Every human being has so many different aspects and facets to them. And there can be something noble and something really dark and dangerous going on in a person all at the same time.

One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions - there's all this contradictory information inside a human personality.

It's the murkiness of humanity that I find endlessly fascinating.

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

Many the wonders but nothing walks stranger than man.

Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

I feel like most people aren't either/or, they're both/and. You're both magnanimous and petty. You're both kind and cruel. You're never just one thing.

Good Lord, what is man! for as simple he looks, Do but try to develop his books and his crooks, With his depths and his shallows, his good and his evil, All in all, he's a problem must puzzle the devil.

But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.

Man is a paradoxical being - the constant glory and scandal of this world.

What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy

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

It's okay to be two things at once and a paradox. Everybody is. As humans for survival we like to label things in a split second. It is how we don't implode from anxiety.

So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.

A man, even if seriously sick or prevented in the exercise of its higher functions, is and will be always a man ... [he] will never become a 'vegetable' or an 'animal,'" the Pope said. "The intrinsic value and personal dignity of every human being does not change depending on their circumstances.

Humanity i love you because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants and forgetting it's there and sitting down on it and because you are forever making poems in the lap of death Humanity i hate you

What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.

What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous

You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you are liable to miss something.