Quotes About Conundrum

He understood the theory. In an emergency people would have to exit that way, out through the window and over the wing. Hence all kinds of regulations mandated a minimum space, so people would be comfortable on their way through, except that if such a thing existed as a minimum space for a person to be comfortable, then why wasn't every row just as capacious? It was a regulatory conundrum he couldn't unravel.

room number?

Why is a raven like a writing desk?

Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what I see'!

To answer that question honestly, I'd have to lie to you.

Aleister Crowley

What is trans? Who is trans? What makes someone trans? Are we sure that it exists as a category? And if so, are we certain that attempting to turn somebody physically from one sex to another is always possible? Or even the best way to deal with the conundrum this presents? Among all the subjects in this book and all the complex issues of our age, none is so radical in the confusion and assumptions it elicits, and so virulent in the demands it makes, as the subject of trans.

Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.

Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.

In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists.

Did you ever in your life,' he asked, 'mount a bicycle from the right?' 'I did not.' 'And why?' 'I do not know. I never thought about it.' He laughed at me indulgently. 'It is nearly an insoluble pancake,' he smiled, 'a conundrum of inscrutable potentialities, a snorter.

I cannot explain something that no one has ever figured out.

Establish enigmas, not explanations.

Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.

people do get hypnotized by the hard choices. And stop looking for alternatives.

The problem has just suddenly become a lot more interesting. Er, difficult. It's just become a bit more difficult.

Mugworm Griblick

Is it possible that is not known?

The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think.

Alice: Why is a raven like a writing desk? Hatter: I haven't the faintest idea.

between Scylla and Charybdis

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life.

Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.