Quotes About Questioning

Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

I rather doubt that life has a meaning. If I thought perhaps it did, and I wanted to find out what its meaning is, I don't imagine I'd ask someone whose credentials consist of a PhD in philosophy.

Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.

Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?

Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues?

Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?

Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.

Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?

Philosophy begins when you don't know where to look for an answer.

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.

Philosophy is doubt.

Who are you? What are you? Why are you?

Who I am? Am I thinking?

In some way or another we are all agnostics. We don't believe in ninety-nine percent of Gods, and we don't know the ultimate reality.