Let me ask you a question Alex. What do you think is the greatest evil on this plant today?" "Is that including, or not including you?
You can think a thing over many times and still have no idea how you'll answer the question, if ever it's asked.
Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night.
you ask too many questions," snapped Cletus. I kept my gaze on Roman. "that's because I get too few answers.
At a certain age men began to shrink, and yet it was precisely at that age that their trousers became too short for them.
When reason has followed its road to the end, the point of crisis is reached and man is brought to the great question mark over his own existence.
Thinking happens in your heart. Put your attention in your heart. Ask the questions from your heart. Then listen to your heart.
Of course the cat will growl and spit at the operator and bite him if she can. But the real question is whether he is a vet or a vivisector.
So the real question remains whether every problem is worth fixing. The answer to that is no.
Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.
Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.
Maybe life is measured by the first time you question your place in the world and by the final answer you come up with.
Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.
What are all the thoughts rattling in your mind when you're not listening to the answers to questions you ask?" -Jo, Boom
But that's the thing with the what-if game-- you really can never know the answer to the question. And maybe it's better that way.
His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, usolved doubt. He is one of those who doesn't want millions, but an answer to their questions.
Como se reparten el sol en el naranjo las naranjas? How do the oranges divide up sunlight in the orange tree?
Como se acuerda con los pajaros la traduccion de sus idiomas? How is the translation of their languages Arranged with the birds?
As far as I am concerned, philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depressed as it is to improve your condition.
for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.
Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possibl...
