Insoluble Problems Quotes
15 quotes by 13 authors
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A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for…
— E F Schumacher
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After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing…
— Henry Adams
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Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the greater the suffering,…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst constantly raises insoluble problems, and…
— Denis de Rougemont
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Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not…
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly,…
— Simone Weil
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The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way -- which money could…
— Theodore Zeldin
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Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no mystery, no insoluble problems,no snags;…
— Paul Tournier
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We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.
— Will Eisner
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[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
— Henry Adams
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There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.
— James A. Michener
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We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
— Lee Iacocca
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We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
— John W. Gardner
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Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
— Henry Adams
Who Wrote These Insoluble Problems Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 15 Insoluble Problems Quotes as follows: