“Alexandre the Great was unable to untie the Gordion Knot. He simply cut it.”

Oluşmak (To Become) Aphorisms (Pan Publishing House, Istanbul, 2011)

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Turkish actor 1953

Cooper Edens (1945) American writer

Source: If You're Afraid of the Dark, Remember the Night Rainbow/Add One More Star to the Night

“We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.”

Michael Ondaatje The Cat's Table

Source: The Cat's Table

“Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.”

Siri Hustvedt (1955) novelist, essayist, poet

Source: The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves

“Don't cut what you can untie.”

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist

“The part which is nearest to the earth… is without knots and is "clear." But the upper part, on account of the great heat in it throws up branches into the air through the knots and this… is called "knotwood" because of its hardness and knottiness. The lowest part, after the tree is cut down and the sapwood of the same thrown away, is split up into four pieces and prepared for joiner's work, and so is called clearstock.”

Vitruvius book De architectura

Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II, Chapter IX, Sec. 7

“The problems is mastered — insupportably
tiring when it was impending.
Deliverance accounts for what sounds like axiom. The Gordian knot need not be cut.”

Marianne Moore (1887–1972) American poet and writer

"Charity Overcoming Envy"
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)

“He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.”

William Gibson book Pattern Recognition

Source: Pattern Recognition

“When Winston Churchill was asked to cut arts funding in favour of the war effort, he simply asked,'then what are we fighting for?”

Kazuo Ishiguro (1954) Japanese-born British author

“As long as 1911, when I was still a member of the Socialist Party, I wrote that the Gordian knot of Trent could be cut only by the sword. At the same date I declared that war is usually the prelude to revolution. It was therefore easy for me, when the Great War broke out, to predict the Russian and the German revolutions.”

Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Leader of the National Fascist Party and subsequen…

As quoted in Talks with Mussolini, Emil Ludwig, Boston, MA, Little, Brown and Company (1933), p. 84, Interview took place between March 23 and April 4, 1932
1930s

“I caught sight of my reflection;
I caught it in the window.
I saw the darkness in my heart;
I saw the signs of my undoing.
They had been there from the start,
And the darkness still has work to do.
The knotted chord's untying.
They're heated and they're holy.
Oh they're sitting there on high.
So secure with everything they're buying.”

Peter Gabriel (1950) English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian

Blood of Eden
Song lyrics, Us (1992)

“Alexandre the Great was unable to untie the Gordion Knot. He simply cut it.”

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