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«Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter.»
Author: Jean Paul Richter
(Novelist)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
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«Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end.»
«For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless, and then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.»
Author: Bill Bryson
(Writer)
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«And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.»
Author: Dr. Seuss
(Cartoonist, Writer)
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«Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
Creativity
| Keywords:
be born, concentrate, conditions, conflict, creativity, everyday, puzzled, puzzles, puzzling, tension, tensions
«The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| Keywords:
creation science, premise, premised, puzzled
«What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end»
«You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
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adopting, delude, deluded, deludes, deluding, dread, illness, mentally ill, puzzled
«Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man really; a man uncertain, puzzled and in the dark like ourselves»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather
(Author)
| About:
Neighbors
| Keywords:
commonplace, conceit, disliked, puzzled, remark, uncertain
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