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Letter "E" » enigma
«I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.»
«I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.»
Author: James Joyce
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arguing, centuries, enigma, enigmas, immortality, insured, insures, insuring, professors, put in, puzzles
«Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.»
Author: Joseph Joubert
(Essayist)
| Keywords:
dishearten, disheartened, disheartening, disheartens, enigma, enigmas, spiritual world
«To say that I have found the answer to all riddles of the soul would be inaccurate and presumptuous. [But] in the knowledge I have developed there must lie the answers to that riddle, to that enigma, to that problem - the human soul - for under my hands and others, was seen the best in man rehabilitated. I discovered that a human being is not his body and demonstrated that through Scientology an individual can attain certainty of his identity apart from that of the body. We cannot deal in the realm of the human soul and ignore the fact.»
Author: L. Ron Hubbard
(Founder, Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
enigma, enigmas, human soul, inaccurate, presumptuous, rehabilitate, rehabilitated, riddle, riddles, Scientology
«How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
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ceaselessly, countless, despite, enigma, enigmas, ephemeral, exceptions, lucidity, paltry, philosophize, philosophized, philosophizes, rarest, The Normal
«It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.»
«We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.»
«I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interests.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
enigma, enigmas, forecast, forecasting, forecasts, interests, mystery, national, riddle, riddled, riddles, riddling, Russia, Russian, the Action, under wraps, wrapped, wrapping, wraps, wrap up
«Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. [About Russia]»
«Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Politics,
Russia
| Keywords:
enigma, enigmas, foreign policy, nationalism, puzzle, riddle, riddled, riddles, riddling, Russian, soviet, Soviets, Soviet Union, wrapped
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