O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
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Whatever sociology may be, it is the result of constantly asking the question, what is the meaning of this? — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
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Those who are driven by poverty, those who're free from material worries hunger exhausting labor a joyless existence ask the same question,… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
I asked: 'What is the meaning of my life, beyond time, cause, and space?' And I replied to quite another question: 'What… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
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“You know as well as we do that right is a question that only has meaning in relations between equals in power.… — Graham Allison Copy Share Image
If a specific question has meaning, it must be possible to find operations by which an answer may be given to it… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
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“[T]he question "What is everything?" has no meaning, even though it seems to be profound. [...] The point is, perhaps, that I… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
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