Every work cancels the dark. Every work is a hymn from the other side of memory to a memory that is spellbound. Beauty is death's gift to vulgar life so that it can live in beauty.
On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?” And Vanity comes along and asks the question, “Is it popular?” But Conscience asks the question, “Is it right?”... The ultima...
Adults discourage children from asking philosophical questions, first by being patronizing to them and then by directing their inquiring minds towards more "useful" questions. Most adults aren't themselves interested in philosophical questions. They ...
A work of art doesn’t need to provide complete answers in order to succeed. It needs only to excite us into asking questions and give us a place to think about them while we become involved in other people’s lives.
I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .
Science may explain how humans came into being, but it has no answer to the slippery question of how humans should live. Only literature makes it possible to pose such questions in the first place. And if there is no answer, only literature can point...
Questions are disturbing, especially those which may threaten our traditions, our institutions, our security. But questions never threaten the living God, who is constantly calling us, and who affirms for us that love is stronger than hate, blessings...
A novel does not assert anything, a novel poses questions... The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the fir...
Experience is a question of instinct about life.
It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
A fundamental American question is, 'What's the big idea?'
You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
I even asked Eleanor Roosevelt difficult questions and she loved it.
You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.
The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.
Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.
No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?
My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
