You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.
Interpretation
Understanding lifeβs complexities requires experience and introspection.
This quote suggests that the questions we face in life often provide the key to understanding ourselves and the world around us. Until we encounter specific situations that challenge us or provoke thought, we remain unaware of the deeper truths and answers that lie within our experiences and thoughts.
In practice
During a philosophical discussion about existence and purpose.
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
faith without doubt is addiction
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.
I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took counsel with this great solitude - and the whisper had proved irresistibly fascinating. It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.
Don't mind your make-up, you'd better make your mind up.
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.
Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.
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