Quotes About Question

He wondered why he stood here, he wondered who had the right to demand that he waste a single irreplaceable hour of his life.

If, in the course of philosophical detection, you find yourself, at times, stopped by the indignantly bewildered question: "How could anyone arrive at such nonsense?"—you will begin to understand it when you discover that evil philosophies are systems of rationalization.

But why?" "You goddamn fool, do you think I consider their question debatable?

Are we to understand," asked the judge, "that you hold your own interests above the interests of the public?" "I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals." "What . . . what do you mean?" "I hold that there is no clash of interests among men who do not demand the unearned and do not practice human sacrifices.

Un inventor es un hombre que pregunta ¿por qué? al universo y no permite que nada se interponga entre la respuesta y su mente.

Ellsworth was fifteen, when he astonished the Bible-class teacher by an odd question. The teacher had been elaborating upon the text: "What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" Ellsworth asked: "Then, in order to be truly wealthy, a man should collect souls?

The novels were an escape from reality in the sense that we could marvel at their beauty and perfection. Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities, about which we felt so helplessly speechless.

Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities, about which we felt so helplessly speechless.

I explained that most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed to immutable.

We have been talking about what Gatsby is all about and we've mentioned some themes, but there is an overall undercurrent to the novel which I think determines its essence and that is the question of loss, the loss of an illusion.

Through them, I discovered a community of faith—that it was okay to doubt, to question, and still reach for something beyond the here and now.

The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works

Why can't I just eat a waffle?

Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?

I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.

Everything, she wanted to scream at him, was a question of safety. All human endeavor bent itself to the same lost cause. Being kept inside a pumpkin shell your whole life was no guarantee against getting flung into space.

a good story doesn't just copy life, it pushes back on it

As a historian I am no longer obsessed with the theological question of how God became a man, but with the historical question of how a man became God.

fundamental question: Did Jesus and his disciples teach an orthodoxy that was transmitted to the churches of the second and third centuries?

Back, then, to my original question: Is this the God of the New Testament?

Still hesitating, Atiaran asked, 'What is your name?' 'That is another long story,' the Giant returned, and repeated, 'What is your need?

El consejo es lo que pedimos cuando ya sabemos la respuesta, pero desearíamos no saberla. ERICA JONG MANN, ESCRITORA

To manufacture fear you have to mobilize a large portion of the people to accept it exists. That takes work. Blood must be shed. Terrorism, if you will. But to counterfeit fear? That's much easier. All you have to do is silence those who call fear into question.

how many shots were left in the clip.