"In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair, disposing of it by means of another question is not."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

Inquiry, Philosophy, Question, Reason

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"In philosophy it is always good to put a question instead of an answer to a question. For an answer to the philosophical question may easily be unfair, disposing of it by means of another question is not."

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"Use 'Why?' to help you follow the breadcrumbs back to the source of the problem."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know-the Church does neither."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

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"Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?"

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"The simplest questions are the most difficult."

William S. Burroughs, American Writer

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"People seize to investigate the truth when things are been repeated constantly."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer?"

Yann Martel, Canadian Author

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"How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself."

Isabel Allende, Chilean Writer

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"Readers who think I have answers when all I have are a few pointed questions."

Erica Jong, American Novelist

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"The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions, or to the specialists in the great religions and philosophical systems for insights into fundamental human values."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"Is Virgin you trying to fathom me."

Jack Kerouac, American Novelist

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"If a lion could talk, we could not understand him."

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"An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it."

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"The world is the totality of facts, not of things."

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"There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy."

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"The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language."

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"I have extremely little courage myself, much less than you; but I have found that whenever, after a long struggle, I have screwed my courage up to do something I always felt much freer & happy after it."

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"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness."

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