Sometimes you have to ask the question as if it's going to be your last question - as if it's going to be the last time you talk to that person.
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything....The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that at...
If Aliosha had come to the conclusion that neither God nor immortality existed, he would immediately have become an atheist and a socialist. For socialism is not only a question of the working classes; it is above all, in its contemporary incarnation...
Do women dress for men or women? I’ve always wondered why that eternally provocative question is put in terms of approval - as if the heart of the matter, the answer, were indeed a question of approval by either sex. But the question is never satis...
Most people don't know how to ask the right questions. Mondo knew how to ask questions, just at the right time, when you weren't expecting it. People paused for a few seconds, they stopped thinking about themselves and their own business, they though...
The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victim...
(on teaching writing) So many writers come to class with one question dominant in their mind, 'How do I make a living from this?' It's a fair enough question and one I always try to answer well - but it saddens me that it so often overshadows the mor...
Frederick: You missed a very dull TV show on Auschwitz. More gruesome film clips, and more puzzled intellectuals declaring their mystification over the systematic murder of millions. The reason they can never answer the question "How could it possibl...
If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.
Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.
Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.
Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.
Our best theory of describing space at a fundamental level is probably string theory.
The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.
In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
Friendships are among the most fundamental of human needs.
Fluctuating ultimate extreme levels of a moment of time are the most fundamental constituents of the universe.
At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.
Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important.
I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity.
I believe in nonjudgmental love; it is in the fundament of all creation.
