“The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates”
Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
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American self help writer 1946Related quotes
Source: Presocratic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2004), Introduction
“The way I think about puzzles is a real puzzle, is something you may not ever figure out.”
Q&A session https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK9nxanN9BM&t=2060s at Graz Technical University, November 2017
“What puzzles me most is your criticism that he showed 'no sense of engagement.”
I haven't met the expression before, and feel bound to comment on its totalitarian tang. Engagement not with the truth as the speaker apprehends it, but with the alleged opinion of the majority of listeners.
Letter 400, to John Morris, 12 January 1953
Selected Letters (1983-1985)
"Robert Anton Wilson on Wilhelm Reich" (March 1995) http://www.wilhelmreichinhell.com/rawonreich.htm
Context: I'm using myself as a typical 20th century model as I'm trying to make sense out of the world around me … typical in the sense of being one of the damn good models around these days. I am typical in the sense that... a lot of people are on the same wave length as me. I get fan mail from people that are absolutely stunned that there's somebody else besides themselves who thinks this way. So, we're a minority, but there are a lot of us. On a planet this overcrowded, a minority can have a few million numbers. … More scientific than religious. More open than dogmatic. More optimistic than pessimistic. More future oriented than past oriented. And more humorous than serious. I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous.
“Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.”
Of Banishment
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
trans. Michael Chase (1995), p. 269
La Philosophie comme manière de vivre (2001)
Lost Worlds : A visit with John Howe (May 2009) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGaxYZX-N3Q
Context: History is like a jigsaw puzzle, except every piece is from a different puzzle, and you try to make them all fit. Although you many never have a finished picture, the time you spend, I think you end up understanding at least the pieces.