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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Soren Kierkegaard /

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Pablo Picasso /

The solution to the problem, which you see in life, lies in living in a way that makes the problems disappear.

Ludwig Wittgenstein /

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

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It is the basic evasion of the essential which is the problem of man.

Wilhelm Reich /

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The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

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Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Bertrand Russell

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To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Albert Einstein

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

George Bernard Shaw

The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Albert Einstein

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Albert Einstein

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Albert Einstein

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

George Bernard Shaw

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - On the Genealogy of Morality

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

René Descartes

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Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.