“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.
“I ask people impertinent questions. Hopefully turning up pertinent answers.”
— Jim Butcher, book Small Favor
Source: Small Favor
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