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Question Quotes by Milan Kundera
- The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question,
- My lifelong ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form.
- For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
- The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
- The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on…
- All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a character, you are…
- The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything....The novelist teaches…
- Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are…
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- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda
- It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. — David Attenborough
- There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it. — David Attenborough
- Devotion is love overflowing. Even when there is nobody, it is overflowing - to things, to tables, to chairs, to walls. It… — Rajneesh
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson
- It is difficult, it is pleasant. It is true, it is real. You will tell yourself this and many other things based… — Unkown
- A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. — Francis Bacon