Quotes About Insoluble

His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain -- why he did not instantly disappear.

What can be done for these headaches?' [...] 'Short of execution,' Lymond said, 'I think the problem is insoluble.

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 progress and fulfilment.

There is no problem of human nature which is insoluble.

[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.

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

The essential property of insoluble bilayers is that they optimise their area at fixed surfactant number.

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.

That's the one thing we never seem to get, how unpackable everything is.

Death is an antidote for this life, and it makes another more stable form of life which is insoluble in everything.

Most people consider problems whose solutions don't suit them to be insoluble. And they constantly ask questions to which they don't need truthful answers.

It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not solved are insoluble.

Se considera insoluble este misterio por las mismas razones que deberían inducir a considerarlo solucionable. (E. A. Poe. Los crímenes de la calle Morgue)

Winwood Reade is good upon the subject, said Holmes. He remarks that, while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

A conscious fruit fly would have to confront exactly the same difficulties, the same kind of insoluble problems as man.

Ceea ce face o carte interesanta e cantitatea de auferinta ce se gaseste in ea.Nu ideile,ci zbuciumul autorului ne atrage: strigatele,tacerile,impasul,zvarcolirile lui,frazele incarcate de insolubil.Ca regula generala,tot ce nu iese din suferinta e fals.

In order not to have to resolve them, I have turned all my practical difficulties into theoretical ones. Faced with the Insoluble, I breathe at last. . . .

Se non si ha dentro di sé la passione dell'insolubile, non è possibile immaginare gli eccessi di cui è capace la negazione, l'impietosa lucidità della negazione.

The emphasis on birth is no more than the craving for the insoluble carried to the point of insanity.

Probably we pursue an insoluble problem in seeking a suitable education for a morbidly melancholy mind.

Up to the age of thirty the face of a woman is a book written in a foreign tongue, which one may still translate in spite of all the feminisms of the idiom; but on passing her fortieth year a woman becomes an insoluble riddle; and if any one can see through an old woman, it is another old woman.

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

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, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.