Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.
As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and our fate as human beings is to make it so
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.
These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit.
All riddles are blues, And all blues are sad, And I'm only mentioning Some blues I've had.
There are more riddles in a stone than in a philosopher's head
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.
Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy
here, there, and everywhere"-an opinionated riddle.
I am a man of few words, but many riddles.
All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.
The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle.
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 for a fact that this idea of the Jews causing the war and the Jews being so all important is nonsense. But that was Hitler's idea, and. . . was pure fantasy. As I say, Hitler is a riddle to me and will always remain so.
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.
Ballet is a riddle of means and ends.
For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist.
