Sphinx Quotes

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them.

For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex—asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality.

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?

Pity for him who one day looks uponhis inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost.

The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.

She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building.

Sphinxes without secrets.

It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.

You can't escape the puking sphinx.

A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.

The problem of Eternity, of which the face of the Sphinx speaks, takes us into the realm of the impossible. Even the problem of Time is simple in comparison with the problem of Eternity.

You are afraid of me, because I talk like a sphinx.

Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.

READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.

It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.

Older recordings just seemed to take me somewhere into my own pre-history. That's always been an interesting, sort of sphinx-like territory for me to wander around in.

Can’t you nudge her into submission? (Taryn) Are you kidding? As stubborn as she is? I’d fry my brain trying. (Sphinx)