Dilemma Quotes - Page 12

• Not the victims of any specific ideology of the left or of the right, but of the ideological posture as such. This has to do with the everlasting human dilemma in general: to work for a revolution and fail.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Revolution, Painting

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• If one does not make human knowledge wholly dependent upon the original self-knowledge and consequent revelation of God to man, then man will have to seek knowledge within himself as the final reference point. Then he will have to seek an exhaustive understanding of reality. He will have to hold that if he cannot attain to such an exhaustive understanding of reality he has no true knowledge of anything at all. Either man must then know everything or he knows nothing. This is the dilemma that confronts every form of non-Christian epistemology

  Cornelius Van Til

  Christian, Reality, Men

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• God has enough grace to solve every dilemma you face, wipe every tear you cry, and answer every question you ask.

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, God, Christian

  FaceBook post by Max Lucado from Aug 01, 2016

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• At last I understood that the way over, or through this dilemma, the unease at writing about 'petty personal problems' was to recognize that nothing is personal, in the sense that it is uniquely one's own. Writing about oneself, one is writing about others, since your problems, pains, pleasures, emotions—and your extraordinary and remarkable ideas—can't be yours alone. [...] Growing up is after all only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares.

  Doris Lessing

  Growing Up, Pain, Writing

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• Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; coffin, too. The same sentiment says yes and no in the human heart. Of all the things God has made, the human heart is the one that sheds most light, and alas! most night.

  Victor Hugo

  Heart, Fate, Night

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• ~I used to think, What if there's an interesting movie and it conflicts with the boys going to a new school for the first time?... Well, I didn't anticipate that was going to be about a two-second dilemma. I didn't know the choices would be so easy to make.~

  Jodie Foster

  School, Parenting, Boys

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• The great thing about the dilemma we're in is that we get to re-imagine every single thing we do...There isn't a single thing that doesn't require a complete remake. There are two ways of looking at that. One is: Oh my gosh, what a big burden. The other way, which I prefer, is: What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because this generation gets to essentially completely change the world.

  Paul Hawken

  Change, Two, This Generation

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• When I’m creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy; but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappiness of others? I'd do everything I could to give everyone a moment of happiness. That's what's at the heart of my music.

  Nino Rota

  Happiness, Music, Being Happy

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• The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try to write a story that I'm just plain not talented or skilful enough to write. That's the dilemma every storyteller faces. It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.

  Orson Scott Card

  Pain, Failure, Book

  "Speaker for the Dead". Book by Orson Scott Card, August 15, 1994.

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• The key to most difficulties does not lie in the dilemmas themselves, but in our relationship to them.

  David Seabury

  Lying, Keys, Doe

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• A lot of my work has been about the unexpected—that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time. That kind of dilemma—that push and pull—is the underlying turbulence that I bring to each of the pieces that I make.

  Kara Walker

  Pieces, Unexpected, Kind

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• In this dilemma they evolved the theory of natural rights. If 'natural rights' means anything it means that the individual rights are to be determined by the conduct of Nature. But Nature knows nothing about rights in the sense of human conception.

  Clarence Darrow

  Mean, Rights, Determined

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.58, Lulu.com

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• Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation...is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew.

  Dan Millman

  Courage, Fear, Laughter

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.163, ReadHowYouWant.com

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