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Leo Tolstoy quote: "the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom,..."
the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982 Leo Tolstoy
I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers... Alice Walker
Books have always been living things to me. Some of my encounters with new authors have changed my life a little. When I have been perplexed, looking for something I could not define to myself, a certain book has turned up, approached me as a friend would. And between it's cover carried the questions and the answers I was looking for. Liv Ullman
Nikolai Berdyaev quote: "Bread for me is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is..."
Bread for me is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one. Nikolai Berdyaev
George W. Bush quote: "The important question is, How many hands have I shaked?"
The important question is, How many hands have I shaked? George W. Bush
Charles Manson quote: "You people would convict a grilled cheese sandwich of murder..."
You people would convict a grilled cheese sandwich of murder and the people wouldn’t question it. Charles Manson
Annie Dillard quote: "The real and proper question is: why is it beutiful?"
The real and proper question is: why is it beutiful? Annie Dillard
I have at least the whole of my life to answer a question: Who am I? And who is the other? A gust of wind at dawn? A motionless landscape? A trembling leaf? A coil of white smoke above a mountain? I write all these words and I hear the wind, not outside, but inside my head. A strong wind, it rattles the shutters through which I enter the dream. Tahar Ben Jelloun
Once evil is individualized, becoming part of everyday life, the way of resisting it also becomes individual. How does the soul survive? is the essential question. And the response is: through love and imagination. Azar Nafisi
Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical? What if the ones inside can't hear very well, would that change my question? John Cage
And the non-reading of books, you will object, should be characteristic of all collectors? This is news to me, you may say. It is not news at all. experts will bear me out when I say that it is the oldest thing in the world. Suffice it to quote the answer which Anatole France gave to a philistine who admired his library and then finished with the standard question, “And you have read all these books, Monsieur France?” “Not one-tenth of them. I don’t suppose you use your Sevres china every day? Walter Benjamin
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is “not done” to say it… Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals. George Orwell
wonder what day god created the egg' 'how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us rejoice and believe and give thanks'. 'eat a egg Ernest Hemingway
Paul Tillich quote: "...only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers."
...only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers. Paul Tillich
Alan Watts quote: "Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be..."
Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way. Alan Watts

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