Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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The framing of a problem is often far more essential than its solution.
We can’t solve a problem by using the same kind of thinking we used to create them.
We shall be able to solve the problem when it will be clearly evident to all that there is no other, no cheaper way out of the present situation.
The problem of finding a collection of wise men and leaving the government to them is thus an insoluble one. That is the ultimate reason for democracy.
The point is that, whenever we propose a solution to a problem, we ought to try as hard as we can to overthrow our solution, rather than defend it. Few of us, unfortunately, practice this precept; but other people, fortunately, will supply the criticism for us if we fail to supply it ourselves.
Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
All life is problem solving.
What do I bring to the problem of the same and the other? This: that the same be the other than the other, and identity difference of difference.
I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
