Perplexity Quotes

• Sólo el hipócrita está realmente podrido hasta la médula.

  Hannah Arendt

  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Rotten

  Sobre la revolución" (1963) cap. 2

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• Lo obvio es aquello que nunca se ve hasta que alguien lo expresa con sencillez.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspiración, Vida Bonita, Simplicidad

  Khalil Gibran "La nueva frontera y la arena y la espuma", Biblioteca de Alejandría

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• God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.

  John Henry Newman

  Saint, Serving Others, Missions

  John Henry Newman (2002). “Prayers, Verses, and Devotions”, p.338, Ignatius Press

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• God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another, I have my mission ... He has not created me for naught ... If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about.

  John Henry Newman

  Spiritual, Sorrow, Doe

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• Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.

  Mark Twain

  Years, Together, Remember

  Autobiography ch. 49 (1959)

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• Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

  François Fenelon

  Prayer, Praying, Trouble

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• El sabio está libre de perplejidades; el virtuoso, de ansiedad; y el audaz, de temor.

  Confucius

  Wise, Anxiety, Virtuous

  Confucius (2012). "Las Analectas de Confucius En un inglés llano y sencillo: Guía de estudio BookCaps", Guías de estudio BookCaps.

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• Cuando en estas frescas mañanas entro en mi jardín antes de que nadie esté despierto, entro por el momento en la felicidad perfecta. En esta hora divinamente fresca y tranquila, el bello rostro de cada flor me saluda con una alegría silenciosa. . . . Todas las preocupaciones, perplejidades y penas de la existencia, todas las cargas de la vida se deslizan de mis hombros y me dejan con el corazón de un niño pequeño que no pide nada más allá del momento presente de dicha inocente.

  Celia Thaxter

  Mañana, Niños, Flor

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• A life accumulates a collection: of people, work and perplexities. We are all our own curators.

  Richard Fortey

  People, Curator, Collections

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• I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him; if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain.

  John Henry Newman

  Sorrow, Doe, May

  John Henry Newman (1900). “The Works of Cardinal Newman”

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• Hay mayores profundidades y oscuridades, mayores complejidades y perplejidades, en una pieza elaborada y bien escrita de tonterías, que en el más abstruso y profundo tratado de divinidad escolar.

  Joseph Addison

  Escuela, Profundidad, Profundidad

  Joseph Addison (1853). "Las obras de Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works", p.624.

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• Why ponder thus the future to foresee, and jade thy brain to vain perplexity? Cast off thy care, leave Allah’s plans to him – He formed them all without consulting thee.

  Omar Khayyam

  Brain, Care, Jade

  Omar Khayyam (2015). “The Sufistic Quatrains”, p.404, Omar Khayyam

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• Al cabo de un tiempo descubrí que casi podía escuchar el silencio, que tenía una dimensión propia. Empecé a atender a su extraña y hermosa textura, que, por supuesto, era imposible expresar con palabras. Descubrí que me sentía en casa y vivo en el silencio, lo que me obligaba a entrar en mi mundo interior y dar vueltas por allí. Sin la distracción de una conversación constante, las palabras de la página empezaron a hablar directamente a mi interior. Ya no expresaban ideas simplemente interesantes desde el punto de vista intelectual, sino que hablaban directamente a mi propio anhelo y perplejidad.

  Karen Armstrong

  Hermoso, Hogar, Ideas

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• Cuando un niño de la calle se presenta ante ti en harapos, con la cara manchada de lágrimas, no puedes olvidarlo fácilmente. Sin embargo, no sabes qué hacer. Es difícil intervenir en el alma humana. Dudas hasta dónde debes llegar.

  Charles Loring Brace

  Niños, Elecciones, Alma

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• The wonderful thing is that the soul already knows to some extent that there is something behind the veil, the veil of perplexity, that there is something to be sought for in the highest spheres of life, that there is some beauty to be seen, that there is Someone to be known who is knowable.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Life, Beauty, Soul

  Hazrat Inayat Khan "Los dichos de Hazrat Inayat Khan", Biblioteca de Alejandría

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• Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of existence, one suspects.

  David Markson

  Fundamentals, Mood, Existence

  David Markson (1995). "La amante de Wittgenstein", Dalkey Archive Pr

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• Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Fall, Ubiquity, Fire

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• Hay momentos en que miro con perplejidad las diversas partes de mi carácter. Reconozco que estoy hecho de varias personas y que la que en ese momento lleva la delantera dará paso inevitablemente a otra. Pero, ¿cuál es la verdadera? ¿Todas o ninguna?

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Real, Character, Hands

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• Nature is a hanging judge," goes an old saying. Many tragedies come from our physical and cognitive makeup. Our bodies are extraordinarily improbable arrangements of matter, with many ways for things to go wrong and only a few ways for things to go right. We are certain to die, and smart enough to know it. Our minds are adapted to a world that no longer exists, prone to misunderstandings correctable only by arduous education, and condemned to perplexity about the deepest questions we can ascertain.

  Steven Pinker

  Smart, Makeup, Judging

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• The Master said, At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I no longer suffered from perplexities. At fifty, I knew what were the biddings of Heaven. At sixty, I heard them with docile ear. At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of righ.

  Confucius

  Heart, Feet, Heaven

  Confucius, Arthur Waley (1949). “The Analects of Confucius”, Routledge

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• A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophy, Men, Philosopher

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The World as Will and Idea 1: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.41, 谷月社

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• All our mortal lives are set in danger and perplexity: one day to prosper, and the next -- who knows? When all is well, then look for rocks ahead.

  Sófocles

  Life, Rocks, One Day

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• Tal vez, en general, el desconcierto y la perplejidad sean una especie de acompañamiento natural de la vida y el movimiento; y es mejor perder el juicio pensando cuál de dos cosas debes hacer que no hacer nada y carecer por completo de interés para todo el mundo.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Pensamiento, Dos, Movimiento

  Margaret Oliphant (2014). "Miss Marjoribanks", p.430, The Floating Press.

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• Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence. We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Essence, Justice, Care

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.91, Stanford University Press

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• Do you not think that sometimes when matters are at the worst with us, when we appear to have done all which we ourselves can do, yet all has been unavailing, and we have only shown we cannot, not we will not, help ourselves; that often just then something comes, almost as if supernaturally, to settle for us, as if our guardian angel took pity on our perplexities, and then at last obtained leave to help us? And if it be so, then what might only be a coincidence becomes a call of Providence, a voice from Heaven, a command.

  James Anthony Froude

  Angel, Thinking, Voice

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.37

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