There is always only one question in the ethics of truth: how will I, as some-one, continue to exceed my own being?
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Fundamentally, all art is about human beings. You're always showing larger moral questions through the smaller moral, philosophical, or political choices through one character in the book.
She stretched, pulling out her earbuds, which apparently in Lykae was code for 'Interogate me,' because the questions, they came a-calling.
History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?
My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? or does every act intend some good?...
There are many challenges to long distance running, but one of the greatest is the question of where to put on's house keys.
You going to be a scientist when you grow up?” That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.
A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.
Got on! Got on! It's not a question of getting on. That's the wrong view altogether. The Classics aren't a ladder leading to quick success.
The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game.
Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
came to [a small Midwest town] to speak . . . , and after he had gone the question of the divinity of Christ for months occupied the minds of the citizens.
