Mr. Mollett: Say, uh, do you mind if I ask you a personal question? Homer Parrish: I know what it is. How did I get these hooks and how do they work? That's what everybody says when they start off, "Do you mind if I ask you a personal question?" Well...
No question; language can free us of feeling, or almost. Maybe that's one of its functions - so we can understand the world without becoming entirely overwhelmed by it.
If things look right on the surface the underside is rarely questioned. However, things may be great in reality, but if one perceives them to be amiss, it is difficult to change that perception.
It is the power of questions that embolden us and keep us as expectant children, all the while developing the power of human consciousness.
And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question".
Why are you so angry?” His question surprised me, and I laughed a little. “This isn’t angry,” I smirked. “This is just me. Get used to it.
When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence.
Foggy nights bring some comfort. He can get lost in the mist and there is no one to stare or question.
There is always only one question in the ethics of truth: how will I, as some-one, continue to exceed my own being?
Silence - best answer for all the questions does certainly be, Your smile - best reaction to all the life’s situations positively. [228] - 4 (Thoughts)
What a comfort to know that God is a poet.
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.
