Today’s young people want to know everything about everyone. They think talking about a problem will solve it. I come from a quieter generation. We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention.
To solve someone is to want to repair them: to diagnose a problem and then not try to fix that problem seemed not only neglectful but immoral.
There were eternal problems: suffering; death; the poor.
The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.[Die Probleme werden gelöst, nicht durch Beibringen neuer Erfahrung, sondern durch Zusammenstellung des längst Bekannten.]
The most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.
The great problems of life, including of course sex, are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious.[Die grossen Lebensprobleme zu denen u. a. auch die Sexualität gehört, stehen immer in Beziehung zu den urtümlichen Bildern des collektiven Unbewussten.]
Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses.
Problems are like cockroaches. If you bring them out into the light, they get scared and leave.
Nothing better than reading about other people’s problems to forget your own.
Never let a little problem become a big problem, or it grows like a fuckin’ snowball.[to Joe]
Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
