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That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The essential question is not, however, how love began, but whether it is growing. -- James Stalker
The essential question is not, "How busy are you?" but "What are you busy at?" -- Oprah Winfrey
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
In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word. We are all partners in a quest. The essential questions have no answers. You are my question, and I am yours - and then there is dialogue. The moment we have answers, there is no dialogue. Questions unite people. -- Elie Wiesel
If we accept and internalize the fact of our own mortality, then, by definition, we have to deal with the essential questions of how we live and spend our allotted time. We have to stop procrastinating, pretending that we have forever to do what we want to do and be what we long to be. -- Surya Das
Who are we?' And to me that's the essential question that's always been in science fiction. A lot of science fiction stories are - at their very best - evocations of that question. When we look up at the night sky and wonder, 'Is there anyone else out there?' we're also asking who we are we in relation to them. -- David Gerrold
There are essentially two questions in life - a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is 'Who am I?' The material question is 'What am I to do with my life?' One leads to the other. -- Rasheed Ogunlaru
Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes germination of consciousness. The properly shaped question always emanates from an essential curiosity about what stands behind. Questions are the keys that cause the secret doors of the psyche to swing open. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers. -- Leonard Bernstein
What is essential is not the answer but the questions; the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in the questions. -- Reginald Horace Blyth
Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment. -- Anthony Kennedy

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