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Henry Tizard (1885–1959) British chemist
Undated attributed quote
Herman E. Daly (1938) American economist
Herman Daly in: " Herman Daly http://www.utne.com/politics/herman-daly-economics-cooperative-collective-good.aspx," in Utne Reader,Jan.-Feb. 1995.
Wolfram von Eschenbach book Parzival
Ôwê daz er niht vrâgte dô!
des pin ich für in noch unvrô.
wan do erz enpfienc in sîne hant,
dô was er vrâgens mit ermant.
Bk. 5, st. 240, line 3; p. 127.
Parzival
“The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.”
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
Preface
1840s, Philosophical Fragments (1844)
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) American economist and diplomat
Source: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 12, p. 328
“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.
Leigh Brackett (1915–1978) American novelist and screenwriter
Source: The Ginger Star (1974), Chapter 15 (p. 128)