Terence McKenna
Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
"We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle"
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Riddle
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
"The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle."
Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
"London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation."
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"All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies."
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"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."
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"Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle."
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"Out yonder there is this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking"
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"Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism."
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"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."
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"The riddle of the age has for each a private solution."
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"Out yonder there was this huge world...which stands before us like a great eternal riddle."
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"The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning."
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"Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy"
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"All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had."
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