No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.
The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'
The most important question to ask on the job is not 'What am I getting?' The most important question to ask on the job is 'What am I becoming?'
We're never encouraged by the producers to ask questions in any way. The most important thing to be is authentic and to be yourself. If I feel someone has answered a question then I'll move on. If I feel it's important enough, I will pursue the question.
Many, if not most, Christians begin with the wrong question of who they should vote for rather than the more important question of how they should vote.
Ask yourself, 'what's more important - being real and being myself, or becoming successful? And ask the question knowing that you never actually have to choose between being real and being successful. You simply have to choose between being realand striving to be successful. Get the difference?
The most important question to ask is "What am I becoming?"
The most important question a human being has to face... What is it? The question, Why are we here?
The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.
The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?
The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?
Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe, the chief task of philosophy, and the task that makes philosophy a worthwhile activity.
Often in life, the most important question we can ask ourselves is: do we really have the problem we think we have?
The thing is, Jesus died for us so we should be able to die for Him. It is an important question to ask yourself.
No one from the intelligence community, anyplace else ever came in and said, ‘What if Saddam is doing all this deception because he actually got rid of the WMD and he doesn't want the Iranians to know?' Now somebody should have asked that question. I should have asked that question. Nobody did. Turns out that was the most important question in terms of the intelligence failure that never got asked.
And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy.