Zitat des Tages über Rätsel / Riddle:
A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.
It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.
The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the lives of hurting people.
Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.
Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing.
It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
Cholesterol - which you get from eating too much of the wrong kind of fat - doesn't just help clog arteries in the brain, it may also help to seed the amyloid plaques that riddle the brain tissue of Alzheimer's victims.
