Quotes About Dilemmas

For most of our lives, sex seems fated to remain steeped in longing and awkwardness. Whatever the manuals may promise, there are really no solutions to the majority of the dilemmas sex creates for us.

Don't run your life by what's legal or illegal. Run your life based on what's right or wrong.

Kant does not seem to envisage that we are torn between two courses of action for moral reasons. He makes no provisions for genuine moral dilemmas, where no option is unambiguously right or all options are equally problematic.

Events – dear boy – duly forced the devaluation option into centre stage. Decade by decade, government by government, the impact of energy policy on British politics is a constant theme. One could write a useful political history which did not move beyond the dilemmas posed by energy supply.

You don't sit around looking for reasons to do the right thing; it's the bad decisions that require creative reasoning.

Sci-fi is about 'what if this happened,' and 'what would you do.' You can play around with social dilemmas, or look at society or, in my case, relationships, in a very different way.

The big problems are where people don't realise they have one in the first place.

Every problem that is interesting is also soluble.

There's different problems to face every day, man.

Everybody has problems. Everyone has issues.

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

This sounds really weird, but I feel like God has given me so many beauty dilemmas so I can help people.

As we know from life, decisions are far more difficult to make than actions are to take.

all the dilemmas and headaches that could make life a moral minefield.

For most of us, life is lived with the philosophical volume turned half down. Yes, the world may be beautiful and intense and moving; yes, the very fact of human existence poses the most extraordinarily profound dilemmas; yes, our every act may involve finely nuanced decisions that have to be made; but we have a bus to catch, but we have a bill to pay, but we have to collect the children from school, but Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

You have to make difficult choices in your life, and you just have to be happy with them.

Indeed, the big decisions in life are hardly ever clear—except for one. And that one is piercingly clear: life is a series of dilemmas, of options, of conundrums, of possibilities taken and not taken. Negotiating these moments well is of the essence of the life well lived.

One of the reasons I admire David Lindsay-Abaire's work is that he, like the Greeks I've spent so much of my professional life contemplating, is not afraid of taking on the big stuff - huge, human, moral issues - what do we owe to those we love?

As we continue to apply AI to new fields, ethical dilemmas will arise and the answers will not be clearly defined.

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

Although these days we commonly talk, hear, or read about 'ethical dilemmas' --- those difficult situations in which we truly are perplexed as to the right course of action --- it is crucial to recognize that these dilemmas, for most of us, represent the exception and not the rule in our lives...What typically is the rule in our daily lives is not a matter of knowing what is right and good but having the character to do what is right and good.

For a man reckoned clever, he got wedged in a lot of stupid corners.

To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living.