“As the man said, for every complex problem there’s a simple solution, and it’s wrong.”
Source: Foucault's Pendulum
“We always may be sure that every man-made thing arises from a problem as a purposeful solution.”
Source: The Shape of Time, 1982, p. 8.
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American art historian 1912–1996Related quotes
1900s, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1900), The Strenuous Life
“Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.”
George H. W. Bush
(1924–2018) American politician, 41st President of the United States
Announcement of the America 2000 Education Strategy (18 April 1991) What Work Requires of Schools Pg 2 http://wdr.doleta.gov/SCANS/whatwork/whatwork.pdf.
“Every concept arises from the equation of unequal things.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense (1873)
Context: Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases — which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal. Every concept arises from the equation of unequal things. Just as it is certain that one leaf is never totally the same as another, so it is certain that the concept "leaf" is formed by arbitrarily discarding these individual differences and by forgetting the distinguishing aspects.
“...for each day there is a new problem and for every problem an expedient solution.”
Bahá'u'lláh
(1817–1892) founder of the Bahá'í Faith
The Kitáb-i-Aqdas
“Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.”
Novalis
(1772–1801) German poet and writer