The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A parent who from his own childhood experience is convinced of the value of fairy tales will have no difficulty in answering his c...hild's questions; but an adult who thinks these tales are only a bunch of lies had better not try telling them; he won't be able to related them in a way which would enrich the child's life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts t...o answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest--whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories--comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Goddesses never die. They slip in and out of the world's cities, in and out of our dreams, century after century, answering to dif...ferent names, dressed differently, perhaps even disguised, perhaps idle and unemployed, their official altars abandoned, their temples feared or simply forgotten.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a... life is to go on asking them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Answering questions can be a responsibility. Children think that their parents have all the answers. In the words of one child, ch...ildren are "whyers" and parents "becausers."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »