Quotes About Dilemma

It's the conflict between Apollo and Dionysus—a famous dilemma in mythology. It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.

When a question has no correct answer; there is only one honest response.

Sometimes the only choice is the lesser of two evils.

Which would you choose? A world without religion? Or a world without science?

darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

He looked like a man searching for an out. Any out.

Sometimes the only course of action is the lesser of two evils.

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

Sometimes the only course of actions if the lesser of two evils.

It's a hypothetical question," she said. "Would you kill half the population today in order to save our species from extinction?

are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

Es el conflicto entre Apolo y Dioniso, un famoso dilema mitológico. La vieja batalla entre mente y corazón, que rara vez quieren lo mismo.

No matter what ya do to help somebody, it'll hurt somebody else.

This is all too important." Aenea smiled. "It's all too important. That's the damned problem, isn't it?" She turned her face back to the stars.

The voice, sounding more than ever to Sol like some cut-rate holie director's shallow idea of what God's voice should sound like, came again: "Sol! You must listen well. The future of humankind depends upon your obedience in this matter. You must take your daughter, your daughter Rachel whom you love, and go to the world called Hyperion and offer her there as a burnt offering at one of the places of which I shall tell you." And

wanted to know how any ethical system—much less a religion so indomitable that it had survived every evil mankind could throw at it—could flow from a command from God for a man to slaughter his son.

Whenever a person is faced in life with a choice, his whole being trembles with the dilemma of what to do.

What's right? Ironic that all my intelligence doesn't help me solve a problem like this.

What's right? Ironic that all my intelligence doesn't help me solve a problem like this.

My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can't have and wanting what you shouldn't want. And I shouldn't want you.

Beyond all our actions stands the larger shadow: How are we to choose between what we have been taught to think right and something else which manifestly succeeds?

This problem - it is age old. To do what is right and save the day without destroying the very thing the day is lived for.

This left me alone to solve the coffee problem - a sort of catch-22, as in order to think straight I need caffeine, and in order to make that happen I need to think straight.

A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well. [Lat., Mulieri nimio male facere melius est onus, quam bene.]