“Philosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.”

“Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.”

“The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble…. They can never be solved, but only outgrown…. This ‘outgrowing’, as I formerly called it, on further experience was seen to consist in a new level of consciousness. Some higher or wider interest arose on the person’s horizon, and through this widening of view, the insoluble problem lost its urgency. It was not solved logically in its own terms, but faded out when confronted with a new and stronger life-tendency.”

“We have this history of impossible solutions to insoluble problems.”

“The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.”

“Difficulty is a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.”