Problem Quotes

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

There’s no problem, only solutions.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.

The greatest and most important problems of life are fundamentally insoluble. They must be so, for they express the necessary polarity inherent in every self-regulating system. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that no force can open the door until just this word has been hit upon, and once it is hit upon any child can open it.[Die philosophischen Probleme kann man mit den Kassenschlössern vergleichen, die durch Einstellen eines bestimmten Wortes oder einer bestimmten Zahl geöffnet werden, sodaß keine Gewalt die Tür öffnen kann, ehe gerade dieses Wort getroffen ist, und ist es getroffen, jedes Kind sie öffnen kann.]

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

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

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.[Nur sich nicht in Teilfragen verstricken, sondern immer dort hinaus flüchten, wo man freien Überblick über das ganze eine große Problem hat, wenn auch dieser Überblick noch unklar ist!]

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.