Books Quote by William James

Contemporary philosophers, even the rationalistic minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact.

— William James

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

— Raymond Chandler

“The real solutions we seek are almost always hiding in plain sight; unfortunately, they’ve usually been obscured by an unbelievable amount of bunk, an…

— Gary Keller

Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Only in the mystery novel are we delivered final and unquestionable solutions. The joke to me is that fiction gives you a truth that…

— Scott Turow

Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.

— Tehyi Hsieh

“That which is profound never lends itself to logical explanation: it involves endless mystery.”

— Soetsu Yanagi

“Indeed, some of the problems commonly engaging the attention of philosophical thought appear to be deprived, not only of all importance, but of any…

— René Guénon

Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies.

— Derek Landy

People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.

— Eugene H. Peterson

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

— Henry Miller

An inexplicable fact is infinitely preferable to an incomprehensible mystery.

— Frederick Soddy