"What is truer than truth? Answer: the story."
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"Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and how shall we live?'"
"Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life."
"God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!"
"If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away."
"An answer is always a form of death."
"Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers."
"If there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness Maybe not, oh, but we can only try."
"So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing."
"Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only."
"The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions."
"Alcohol is not the answer to all questions"
"Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends."
"Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides."
"The god excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument."
"Even in high school, a rule that permits only one point of view to be expressed is less likely to produce correct answers than the open discussion of countervailing views."
"The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which the Grail is the answer. . . It's the world of people living inauthentic lives - doing what they are supposed to do."
"Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically."
"... sometimes when you are asked a question that is difficult, the mind doesn't stay silent if it doesn't have the answer. The mind produces something, and what it produces very characteristically is the answer to an easier but related question."
"I do not have answers to all the problems, but for sure will work to find solutions to as many as I can."