The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.
You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
This actual question of 'Why does God allow war?' is not considered or raised as such in the Bible at all.
The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.
Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.
The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie.
I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded.
It's very questionable, and we will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice's life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on.
For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way.
As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.
On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.
We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No one's illegal. They should just be able to come.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.
Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?
When you really want to find the answers to the great questions of your life, you need to look for them deep in yourself.
