Best ultimate & problem Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the key without even recognizing that this is what you hold.”

Problem Difficult Keys Ultimate Novelists Recognizing Knots Omen Fluidity Good Omens Difficult Problems

Author:Zadie Smith

“The problem with our churches today is that the lead pastor is some sissy boy who wears cardigan sweaters, has The Carpenters dialed in on his iPod, gets his hair cut at a salon instead of a barber shop, hasn’t been to an Ultimate Fighting match, works out on an elliptical machine instead of going to isolated regions of Russia like in Rocky IV in order to harvest lumber with his teeth, and generally swishes around like Jack from Three’s Company whenever Mr. Roper was around.”

“The search for some ultimate significance in the universe, and in our little transient role in it, the compulsion to learn, to know, to find the truth, to answer questions and solve problems - these constitute the essence of an aware existence, the central core of intelligent life.”

Knows Life Littles Problem Universe Answers Existence Roles Essence Ultimate Intelligent Solve Core Significance Compulsion Transient Intelligent Life

Author:Dale Rex Coman

“The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the most vital movement of modern times. In its relation to the well-being of the men and women of this and ensuing generations, it exceeds in importance the proper solution of various economic problems which are constant themes of legislative discussion and enactment.”

“The change began with John Stuart Mill and the Utopians . When Mill pointed out that economics had no ultimate solution to the problem of distribution , that society might do with the fruits of its toil as it saw fit, he introduced into the mechanical calculus of the market a conflicting calculus of moral judgment.”

Problem Might Moral Saws Fit Judgment Solutions Economics Ultimate Fruit Toil Distribution Mills Calculus Moral Judgment

Author:Robert Heilbroner

“Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh?”

Men Problem Laughing Mystery Honest Duty Angel Ultimate Deny Foolish Ignorant Certainty Honest Man Pulpit

Book:An Agnostic's Apology, and Other Essays

Source: An Agnostic's Apology, and Other Essays

“Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and to keep the common understanding from levelling them off to that unintelligibility which functions in turn as a source of pseudo-problems.”

Philosophy Problem Turns Force Understanding Common Source Ultimate Function Preserves Nevertheless Elementals Pseudo

Author:Martin Heidegger

“PLEASURE and pain are undoubtedly the ultimate objects of the calculus of economics. To satisfy our wants to the utmost with the least effort - to procure the greatest amount of what is desirable at the expense of the least that is undesirable - in other words, to maximize pleasure, is the problem of economics.”

Want Problem Pain Pleasure Effort Objects Amount Economics Ultimate Expenses Desirable Calculus Pain And Pleasure Undesirable

Book:The Theory of Political Economy

Source: The Theory of Political Economy

“The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.”

Problem Spiritual Culture Holy Solutions Ultimate Complacency Urgency Embedded

Book:The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

Source: The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage

“[T]he main problem in life is sin, and the only solution is God and his grace. The alternative to this view is to identify something besides sin as the main problem with the world and something besides God as the main remedy. That demonizes something that is not completely bad, and makes an idol out of something that cannot be the ultimate good.”

World Problem Life Is Sin Views Grace Solutions Ultimate Alternatives Idols Remedy Problems In Life

Book:Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

Source: Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

“Force, punishment, and violence are patriarchy's answer to conflicts and social problems. Patriarchy finds its ultimate expression in war.”

War Problem Force Social Answers Violence Expression Conflict Ultimate Punishment Patriarchy Social Problems

Author:Starhawk

“No matter how many possessions we acquire, they will not provide us with any lasting happiness and freedom. On the contrary, it is often our pursuit of material possessions that causes our problems. If we want ultimate happiness and freedom from suffering, we must engage in the supreme practices of training the mind. There is no other way.”

“I can see being kind to people, but I don't think giving them money solves the problem. I think it makes the problem worse and it prolongs the ultimate, inevitable end anyway.”

People Thinking Giving Kind I Can Ends Problem Ultimate Solve Inevitable Be Kind

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“Outside observers often assume that the more complicted a piece of mathematics is, the more mathematicians admire it. Nothing could be further from the truth. Mathematicians admire elegance and simplicity above all else, and the ultimate goal in solving a problem is to find the method that does the job in the most efficient manner. Though the major accolades are given to the individual who solves a particular problem first, credit (and gratitude) always goes to those who subsequently find a simpler solution.”

“We current Justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as Twentieth Century Americans. We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time. For the genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs.”

“Economic problems have no sharp edges. They shade off imperceptibly into politics, sociology, and ethics. Indeed, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that the ultimate answer to every economic problem lies in some other field.”

Problem Lying Answers Economic Fields Ethics Ultimate Edges Shade Sociology Exaggeration Economic Problems Sharp Edges

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“Contemporary philosophers are facing problems that were unthinkable only one century ago, such as whether space and time are mutually Independent, whether there is objective chance or only uncertainty, whether physics can explain chemical change, whether our behavior is fully determined by our genomes, whether ideation can change the brain, or whether either the economy or ideas are the ultimate roots of the social.”

“It is not realistic or hard-headed to solve problems and take action unguided by ultimate moral aims and values, although we all know some who claim that it is so. In my judgement, it is thoughtless folly. For it ignores the realities of human faith and of passion and of belief; forces ultimately more powerful than all the calculations of our economists or of our generals. Of course to adhere to standards, to idealism, to vision in the face of immediate dangers takes great courage and takes self-confidence. But we also know that only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.”

“The ultimate way to solve human problems is with nonviolence.”

Way Humans Problem Ultimate Solve Nonviolence Human Problems

Author:Dalai Lama

“The gospel of Jesus Christ has the answers to all of our problems. The gospel is not a secret. It is not complicated or hidden. It can unlock the door to true happiness. It is not someone's theory or proposition. It does not come from man at all. It springs from the pure and everlasting waters of the Creator of the universe, who knows truths we cannot even begin to comprehend. And with that knowledge, He has given us the gospel-a divine gift, the ultimate formula for happiness and success.”

“All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.”

Problem Space Subjects Materials Ultimate Intelligent Limitation Constraints Space Time Problem Solvers

Author:Marvin Minsky

“In a sense it (Christianity) creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is righteousness and loving.”

Thinking World Problem Reality Would Be Pain Sides Christianity Ultimate Painful Solve Righteousness Assurance No Problem Ultimate Reality Daily Experience

Book:The Problem of Pain

Source: The Problem of Pain

“The ultimate test's always your own serenity. If you don't have this when you start and maintain it while you're working you're likely to build your personal problems right into the machine itself.”

Ifs Problem Tests Machines Ultimate Serenity Zen Motorcycle Maintenance Personal Problems

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“We like to say the Internet is the ultimate library. But libraries are libraries because people come together and fund them through taxes. Libraries actually exist, all over the country, so why is it such a reach to imagine and to someday build a public institution that has a digital aspect to it? Of course the problem is that libraries and other public services are being defunded and are under attack, so there's a bigger progressive struggle this plays into.”

People Country Play Problem Together Courses Struggle Imagine Internet Taxes Aspect Ultimate Bigger Institutions Library Someday Digital Fund Progressive Public Service

Author:Astra Taylor

“We've got to remember that the core of Christ's plan is to rescue us from sin. Our pain, poverty, and broken hearts are not his ultimate focus. True, he cares about these things, but they're merely symptoms of the real problem.”

Heart Real Problem Care Pain Remember Christ Sin Poverty Focus Plans Broken Ultimate Core Rescue Symptoms Real Problems

Author:Joni Eareckson Tada

“Worldviews have four elements that help us understand how a person's story fits together: creation, fall, redemption, and restoration. "Creation" tells us how things began, where everything came from (including us), the reason for our origins, and what ultimate reality is like. "Fall" describes the problem (since we all know something has gone wrong with the world). "Redemption" gives us the solution, the way to fix what went wrong. "Restoration" describes what the world would look like once the repair begins to take place.”

“If you realize that the ultimate happiness for all depends not on disorder of the emotions for either sex, but in harmonizing the emotions, all the problems will vanish.”

Ifs Problem Sex Realizing Emotion Depends Ultimate Disorder Ultimate Happiness

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Nietzsche saw that ultimately the problem of nihilism is the problem of what to do with time: Why keep investing in the future when there is no longer any transcendental guarantor, a positive end of time as ultimate reconciliation or redemption, ensuring a pay-off for this investment? Nietzsche's solution - his attempted overcoming of nihilism - consists in affirming the senselessness of becoming as such - all becoming, without reservation or discrimination.”

Problem Solutions Ultimate Overcoming Investment Discrimination Redemption End Times Reconciliation Nihilism Transcendental Affirming

Author:Ray Brassier

“The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.”

Feels Firsts Littles Problem Body Ultimate Anger Betrayal Frustration Rebel Anger And Frustration

Author:Charles Bronson

“Your peace of mind, your assurance of answers to vexing problems, your ultimate joy depend upon your trust in Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ.”

Mind Problem Joy Father Jesus Christ Answers Son Depends Jesus Christ Ultimate Heavenly Peace Of Mind Assurance Heavenly Father

Author:Richard G. Scott

“I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code. This is the ultimate solution, not to just say we're going to trim around the edges, not to say that we will try to simplify a little of this and a little of that. The problem is, replace the tax code, so we can establish tax fairness for everybody.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Firsts Littles Problem Would Be Taxes Solutions Fairs Ultimate Edges Code Fairness Simplify

Author:Herman Cain

“This story is the ultimate example of American’s biggest political problem. We no longer have the attention span to deal with any twenty-first century crisis. We live in an economy that is immensely complex and we are completely at the mercy of the small group of people who understand it – who incidentally often happen to be the same people who built these wildly complex economic systems. We have to trust these people to do the right thing, but we can’t, because, well, they’re scum. Which is kind of a big problem, when you think about it.”

“Do you want to make progress? If so, then take each problem not as a challenging rival, but as an encouraging friend of yours, who is helping you to arrive at your ultimate destination.”

Ifs Want Helping Problem Challenges Progress Ultimate Destination Rivals

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“I understand the arguments about how the billions of dollars spent to put men on the moon could have been used to fight poverty and hunger on Earth. But, look, I'm a scientist who sees inspiration as the ultimate tool for doing good. When you use money to fight poverty, it can be of great value, but too often, you're working at the margins. When you're putting people on the moon, you're inspiring all of us to achieve the maximum of human potential, which is how our greatest problems will eventually be solved. Give yourself permission to dream.”

“Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder. Violence may murder the liar, but it doesn’t murder lie; it doesn’t establish truth. Violence may even murder the dishonest man, but it doesn’t murder dishonesty. Violence may go to the point of murdering the hater, but it doesn’t murder hate. It may increase hate. It is always a descending spiral leading nowhere. This is the ultimate weakness of violence: It multiplies evil and violence in the universe. It doesn’t solve any problems.”

Men May Problem Lying Hate Universe Evil Deals Situation Violence Weakness Ultimate Increase Murder Solve Liars Murderer Dishonesty Spirals Descending

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Either man is obsolete or war is. War is the ultimate tool of politics. Political leaders look out only for their own side. Politicians are always realistically maneuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.”

Men Looks War Problem Political Next Politics Sides Leader Politician Tools Ultimate Election Fundamentals Antiwar Obsolete Political Leaders Problem Solvers

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“The ultimate truth is like the flavour of an apple which you can't see with the eye or hear with the ear. The only way to experience it is to put the teachings into practice. Once you taste it, you are no longer in any doubt about its flavour and you do not have to ask anyone else. The problem is solved.”

Way Problem Eye Asks Practice Doubt Teaching Awareness Taste Truth Is Ultimate Ears Apples Flavour Ultimate Truth

Author:Ajahn Chah

“The ultimate solutions to problems are rational; the process of finding them is not.”

Problem Process Challenges Findings Solutions Ultimate Rational Solution To A Problem Brainstorming Lateral Thinking

Author:J. P. Guilford

“His readiness to undergo persecutions for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up to him as leader, and the greatness of his ultimate achievement - all argue his fundamental integrity. To suppose Muhammad an impostor raises more problems than it solves. Moreover, none of the great figures of history is so poorly appreciated in the West as Muhammad.”

“Not the least of the problems in clarifying one's consciousness is developing the stoic determination to criticize one's own softness or sentimentality toward oneself. Ego, self-solicitous about its own tenderness, is the ultimate policeman over its own false consciousness, dementedly uprooting every healthy seedling of insight into the truth. As Kierkegaard remarked, most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, but the real trick and task of life is to learn to be just the very opposite.”

“We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves problems, it does so by its own inexhaustibility, and by its ultimate refusal to be applied or used, even for moral good. This refusal, indeed, is literature's most moral act. At a time when meanings are manifold, disparate, and always changing, the rich possibility of interpretation--the happy resistance of the text to ever be fully known and mastered--is one of the most exhilarating products of human culture.”

Source: The Use and Abuse of Literature

“As with military campaigns, cultural warfare is always decided over the pragmatic problems of strategy, organization and resources. . . . The factions with the best strategies, most efficient organization, and access to resources will plainly have the advantage and very possibly, the ultimate victory.”

Problem Military Victory Resources Advantage Decided Ultimate Organization Strategy Access Campaigns Humanist Efficient Warfare Pragmatic Factions

Book:Culture Wars: The Struggle To Control The Family, Art, Education, Law, And Politics In America

Source: Culture Wars: The Struggle To Control The Family, Art, Education, Law, And Politics In America

Ultimate Quotes

Related topics

Ultimate Quotes