Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not.
Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether time has a beginning and an end.
Camus clearly got up on the wrong side of bed, and Robbins must have forgotten to set the alarm.
There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay?
Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself.
He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.
Elie WieselTag: questioning questions
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.
Richard DawkinsTag: motivational inspirational questions beauty sleep meaning color enlightened
Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.
Primo LeviTag: existence questions danger monsters holocaust common-men
Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the answers surprise you, you look silly.
Laurell K. HamiltonWith faith, there are no questions; without faith, there are no answers.
Yisroel Meir Ha-Cohen...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to the next. Don't look past this boundary, they told Galileo, then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, and Crick, always retreating with great dignity before the latest scientific advance, then drawing the next holy perimeter at the shadowy rim of knowledge.
David BrinTag: science knowledge questions religion scientists
He looked at me intently, from what seemed behind the veil of a grave experience. Then slowly and prophetically, he said the scariest thing I'd ever heard: "Because the answer to a heartfelt question, Jack, will always break your heart.
Thomas H. CookTag: truth questions heartbreak
The Wilderness holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask.
Nancy Wynne NewhallTag: questions answers wilderness
At the end of the day, the questions we ask of ourselves determine the type of people that we will become.
Leo BabautaTag: wisdom life questions choices
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