A Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.

Henry Ward Beecher

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History Mystery Problem

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Henry Ward Beecher
American - Priest
June 24, 1813 - March 8, 1887

Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem.

Bill McKibben

A mystery is a problem that encroaches upon itself because the questioner becomes the object of the question. Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling in love is a mystery.

Gabriel Marcel

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

Charles Darwin

It could be that the total scenario for human beings is an insoluble mystery until we die, followed by nothing at all.

Bryan Magee

Dualism makes the problem insoluble; materialism denies the existence of any phenomenon to study, and hence of any problem.

John Searle

Days pass when I forget the mystery. Problems insoluble and problems offering their own ignored solutions jostle for my attention, they crowd its antechamber along with a host of diversions, my courtiers, wearing their colored clothes; caps and bells. And then once more the quiet mystery is present to me, the throng's clamor recedes: the mystery that there is anything, anything at all, let alone cosmos, joy, memory, everything, rather than void: and that, 0 Lord, Creator, Hallowed one, You still, hour by hour sustain it.

Denise Levertov

There is no problem of human nature which is insoluble.

Ralph Bunche

If a problem is insoluble, it is Necessity. Leave it alone.

Mason Cooley

Climate change is a huge problem, an almost insoluble problem, for two reasons. One is the habits of the West in terms of consumption. The other is the incredible iniquity between poor countries and rich countries on this planet.

Bill McKibben

We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.

Will Eisner

The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown. This 'outgrowing', as I formerly called it, on further experience was seen to consist in a new level of consciousness. Some higher or wider interest arose on the person's horizon, and through this widening of view, the insoluble problem lost its urgency. It was not solved logically in its own terms, but faded out when confronted with a new and stronger life-tendency.

Carl Jung

No problem is insoluble, given a big enough plastic bag.

Tom Stoppard

Freedom is a permanent problem for us, both unavoidable and insoluble.

Allen W. Wood

If the problem of free will is to see how freedom fits into the order of nature, then Kant's basic view about the free will problem is that it is insoluble.

Allen W. Wood

As soon as you have a problem, it's insoluble. These things should never have been allowed to happen.