It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.
Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism.
It was long before I got at the maxim, that in reading an old mathematician you will not read his riddle unless you plough with his heifer; you must see with his light, if you want to know how much he saw.
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children.
the best way to sharpen a knife is not to whet one side of it only. And neither can you solve a riddle by considering only one end of it.
Of course money buys happiness. You ever seen a homeless person skip? The answer to that riddle's no. They're not allowed.
Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
If then, your world be such a baffling riddle, it is because you are that baffling riddle. And if your speech be such a woeful maze, it is because you are that woeful maze.
Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.
Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.
Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.
For myself, I am interested in science and in philosophy only because I want to learn something about the riddle of the world in which we live, and the riddle of man's knowledge of that world. And I believe that only a revival of interest in these riddles can save the sciences and philosophy from an obscurantist faith in the expert's special skill and in his personal knowledge and authority.
Riddle me this, riddle me that. Who's afraid of the big black bat?
We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?
The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where did the universe come from?]
Did you ever think, Clarice, why the Philistines don't understand you? It's because you are the answer to Samson's riddle. You are the honey in the lion.
Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me the answers also, in due time.
I know what you are known as. . . but to me, you will always be Tom Riddle. It is one of the irritating things about old teachers. I am afraid that they never quite forget their charges’ youthful beginnings.