David Gerrold book When HARLIE Was One
Section 15 (p. 72; Dr. Auberson, then HARLIE)
When HARLIE Was One (1972)
Quoted in "Social Theory After the Holocaust" - Page 150 - by Robert Fine, Charles Turner - History - 2000
David Gerrold book When HARLIE Was One
Section 15 (p. 72; Dr. Auberson, then HARLIE)
When HARLIE Was One (1972)
Carl Sagan book The Demon-Haunted World
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“The most important question a human being has to face… What is it? The question, Why are we here?”
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
"“Why Are We Here?”, in The Watchtower (2006) http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2006768?q=Elie+Wiesel&p=par
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
"Einstein's Reply to Criticisms" (1949), The World As I See It (1949)
Context: What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it? I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
“When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.”
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
Quand il s’agit d’argent, tout le monde est de la même religion.
Letter to Mme. d'Épinal, Ferney (26 December 1760) from Oeuvres Complètes de Voltaire: Correspondance (Garnier frères, Paris, 1881), vol. IX, letter # 4390 (p. 124)
Citas
“The question is—what is the question?”
John Archibald Wheeler (1911–2008) American physicist
Leonard Susskind, The Black Hole War (2008), chapter 13
Meher Baba (1894–1969) Indian mystic
47 : The Question and its Answer, p. 78.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
As quoted in: Ṭhānissaro (Bhikkhu.) (2004) Handful of leaves. Vol. 3, p. 80
“Asking what the question is, and why the question is asked, is always asking a pertinent question.”
Raymond Geuss book Philosophy and Real Politics
Source: Philosophy and Real Politics (2008), p. 17.