| MAN - a Paradox | 人 - 弔詭 |
| Man is harder than rock, and more fragile than an
egg. Yugoslavian Proverb 人比石頭剛硬，也比蛋還易碎。 |
| I have become a puzzle to
myself. Augustine 我成了自己的謎題。 |
| Although modern man zestfully explores outer space,
he seems quite content to live in a spiritual kindergarten and play in a moral wilderness. Carl F. H. Henry 雖然現代人熱衷於探測外太空，他看起來十分滿足的活在心靈幼稚園並在道德荒野中嬉戲。 |
| Man is an enigma to himself. Carl Gustav Jung 人是自己的一個謎題。 |
| Man's conquest of nature has been astonishing.
His failure to conquer human nature has been tragic. Julius Mark 人類征服大自然的成果令人驚奇。令人悲哀的是他卻無法征服自己的本性。 |
| All the evidence of history
suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a nearly infinite capacity for
folly...He draws blueprints for Utopia but never quite gets it built. Robert McNamara 所有歷史的證據顯示人類事實上是理性的動物，但集其幾乎無限愚蠢的能事...人們畫了個理想國的藍圖，卻從未建造出這樣的國度。 |
| What a chimera, then, is man! What a novelty!
What a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things,
imbecile worm of the earth; depository of truth; a sink of uncertainly and error; the
pride and refuse of the universe. Blaise Pascal 人真是神話中的四不像怪獸！看他是多麼高貴！卻又多麼的混亂，多麼矛盾，多麼的了不起！是一切事物的審判者，卻又是世上最愚蠢的蟲；是存放真理的倉庫；卻又是充滿不確定及錯謬的污水槽；是世間最榮耀的，但又是萬物的渣滓。 |
| Man is a peculiar, puzzling
paradox, groping for God and hoping to hide from him at the selfsame time. William A. Ward 人真是怪異的動物，令人困惑的弔詭，想要尋求上帝，卻同時想要逃離祂。 |