Quotes About Perplexity

We are completely perplexed, then, and you must clear up the question for us, of what you intend to signify when you use the word being. Obviously you must be quite familiar with what you mean, whereas we, who formerly imagined we knew, are now at a loss.

Yes, I said, that they should begin by reproaching us with our ignorance of the good, and then presume our knowledge of it—for the good they define to be knowledge of the good, just as if we understood them when they use the term 'good'—this is of course ridiculous. Most true, he said. And those who make pleasure their good are in equal perplexity; for they are compelled to admit that there are bad pleasures as well as good. Certainly. And

EUTHYPHRO: The truth is, Socrates, that I'm at a loss as to how to say what I want to say; somehow or other whatever we put forward has a habit of moving around and refusing to stay wherever we try to make it stand.

For it is clear, on the one hand, that have you been familiar with these things for a long time—whatever you wish to signify when you utter being—and, before this we used to believe it, but now we have been perplexed.

There have been times, Socrates, when I have been driven in my perplexity to take refuge with Protagoras; not that I agree with him at all.

For it is clear, on the one hand, that you have been familiar with these things for a long time —whatever you wish to signify when you utter being— and, before this we used to believe it, but now we have been perplexed.

Non ho mai capito come allora quanto sia laboriosa la morte di un uomo.

It seemed poison had been poured into wonder's own decanter.

Really? Is he running for Worst Boyfriend Ever? In the subcategory of Completely Awesome.

Who's your daddy?' Myrnin stared at him as if he'd gone completely mental. ' Excuse me?

Something about him, it was true, did seem to make certain people angry. Certain women. He generally found it amusing.

Everything is more than it seems, but nothing is as mysterious as it appears to be.

I've seen things that I don't understand but that nonetheless delight me.

We are coming now to dark shoals in rough waters, to straits so narrow that virtue and wickedness voyage close together and may be at times more difficult than usual to differentiate from each other.

I've seen things that I don't understand but that nonetheless delight me.

She stands just outside her door, puzzled, vaguely disquieted.

A sense of wrongness prickles as if a burr has somehow gotten under her skull.

You could make yourself a little crazy, even certifiable, if you insisted that life always proceed according to some this-because-that system of logic. Occasionally you had to accept the inexplicable.

How could I tell you about it? It was a dream. It didn't make any fucking sense, man. But I do remember it.

Chuck said, Fuck if I know. Cawley stepped up beside them. Quite similar to our clinical conclusion.

Another death. The more I see, the less I know.

There is no simple answer to such a question

Cows? he asked, Was it really cows, or was I dreaming?

I hadn't spent so much time in bemused contemplation of a penis since I was sixteen or so, and here I was, preoccupied with three of the things.