Quotes About Question

The question of existence never gets straightened out except through existing itself.

The task of the grounding of Da-sein by way of thinking and poetry overcomes the question of possibility. That question—How is such and such possible?—is the last implementation of mathematical thinking, which is the result of the dominance of the proposition as such, which in turn is the result of the collapse of ???????.

the question is not whether we will be extremist, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we be extremists for the cause of justice?

When people think about race problems they are too often more concerned with men than with God. The question usually asked is: 'What will my friends think if I am too friendly to Negroes or too liberal on the race question?' Men forget to ask: 'What will God think?

My mind cannot grasp forever, she told him. There must surely be an end somewhere. But the big question is-what it beyond the end?

Well, really, this is a very pretty little mystery! What

Un día le pregunté: ¿Papá, por qué eres tan viejo?. Él arqueó las cejas, de modo que tomaron la forma de unos pequeños paraguas caídos sobre sus ojos. Y luego suspiró largamente, movió la cabeza y dijo: No lo sé.

How can they whip cheese?

Neither question nor answer was meant as anything more than a polite preamble to conversation.

Socrates asked the key question: why should we be moral?

If you are happy in a dream, Ammu, does that count? Estha asked. Does what count? The happiness does it count?

Because it had to do with more than all that. It was the haughtiness (despite the question mark over her 'stock', as his mother had not hesitated to put it). It had to do with the way she lived, in the country of her own skin. A country that issued no visas and seemed to have no consulates.

in asking the question, Who was Jesus?, we must expect different answers because only part of the response can come from history. The other part comes from the heart of the person answering the question. The query is both historical and personal, so the answers will be both as well.

One wants to know whether, in the end, her troubles were physical or psychological. But it is a question as impossible to answer as whether a blush is physical or mental—or, for that matter, whether a person is. Everyone is both, inseparable even by a surgeon's blade.

Our reverence for independence takes no account of the reality of what happens in life: sooner or later, independence will become impossible. Serious illness or infirmity will strike . It is as inevitable as sunset. And then a new question arises: If independence is what we live for, what do we do when it can no longer be sustained?

She misinterprets this as a question.

The question was how to buy the child time to find out. It wasn't clear he'd last the night.

Qué es el amor? —preguntó Adèle mientras miraba la luna como si buscara la respuesta en el cielo. —Es la simpatía de las almas —susurró el abogado con una voz que parecía proceder del viento.

Why God got to be so big? Why he got to be bigger than me?

These core certainties are sheltered from your scrutiny. Because you know you can depend on them, you never question them.

Who is John Galt?

It is only in the realm of pure science that truth is an absolute criterion. When we deal with applied science, with technology—we deal with people. And when we deal with people, considerations other than truth enter the question.

Only one hand went up. "Well, it looks like we've got one honest person in our group!" she said. And then continued, "Maybe you'll like this next question better. How many here think other people are afraid of change?" Practically everyone raised their hands. Then they all started laughing.

But how can I use a method to discredit that very method, if the method is discreditable?