Top 1200 Philosophical Questions Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Questions are creative acts of intelligence.

Real patriots ask questions.

Learn to love the questions themselves.

The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.

Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all.

Secular humanism does not have the essential attributes of a religion: belief in a deity, the wish for some sort of afterlife, sacred dogma or texts, or an absolutist moral creed. Instead, it expresses a philosophical and ethical point of view, and it draws upon the scientific method in formulationg its naturalistic view of the nature.

Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.

There are lots of questions which have to be answered.

Ask questions; don't make assumptions.

My job is to ask tough questions.

One reads in order to ask questions

I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.

I have no message or answers to social questions.

Language was invented to ask questions.

When will all the rhetorical questions end?

Enjoy the questions and forget the answers.

What we philosophers can do is just correct the questions.

It is not the answers you give, but the questions you ask.

Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do that; neither can do anything, without this solicitor instructing and this counsel appearing for A, and that solicitor instructing & that counsel appearing for B.

VCs are good at asking questions.

The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages -- have been believers in Jesus Christ; and the great Cond?, when dying, repeated these noble words, "Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!".

I am not shy when it comes to asking questions.

Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.

There are many questions in this world that have no answers.

I don't answer deeply hypothetical questions.

Genius knows where the questions are hidden.

Freedom is neither a legal invention nor a philosophical conquest, the cherished possession of civilizations more valid than others because they alone have been able to create or preserve it. It is the outcome of an objective relationship between the individual and the space he occupies, between the consumer and the resources at his disposal.

When I had all the answers, the questions changed.

The simplest questions are the most difficult.

Shoot first and ask questions not at all

Anecdotes generate questions, not answers.

We can all become activists and raise questions.

Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.

Answerless questions can destroy you. Move on.

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

I don't think there are any rude questions.

There are no right answers to wrong questions.

We run the company by questions, not by answers.

Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep love for another person or for the world, or an apprehension of the spiritual. It's about making something, in language, which can be transmitted to others--not as information, or polemic, but as irreducible art.

Every noble action is selfish. Some selfish actions are nobler than others. But they are all selfish. And as such there can be no action purely noble anyway. Even the nobility in God's great philosophical intentions is bounded by his vanity.

Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which people cross that turns it into some magical, mystical realm, for which I dont claim responsibility and dont hold any great truck with.

Nothing new is on the earth right now. Technology, the things that we're discovering, it's been sitting here just waiting for someone to brush it off and go, 'Oh, let me read that. Let me see how I can use this information.' And it doesn't matter if it's from a tech perspective or a philosophical perspective.

In times of uncertainty - whether it's economic, psychological, emotional, or philosophical - people often say that the only thing we can truly control is our attitudes. If that's true, then I'm going to spend today walking my 14-year-old dog on a free beach and treasuring the fact that she's still alive.

When you speak, ask questions. Don't lecture.

Even a genius has his questions.

Music is what I have to do, I only answer the questions so that I can do it.

I welcome questions. I hate assumptions.

Some questions change everything.

I like photographers-you don't ask questions.

I'm a gangster, and gangsters don't ask questions.

Questions about acting are difficult.

The simple questions are always the hardest ones.

I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could I make a life, and how I could cross what is kind of trivialized as a domestic novel with a novel of ideas, a philosophical novel.

What questions do I want my audience to ask?

I subscribe to the school that there are no dumb questions.

We need ask more questions.

Even the genius ask questions.