“Asked to prove a questioner's existence, Morgenbesser shot back, "Who's asking?"”
Remembering Sidney Morgenbesser, https://web.archive.org/web/20040821091507/http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/getmailfiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2004/08/03&ID=Ar01400 by Gary Shapiro in 'The New York Sun' 3 August 2004 (Archived by Wayback Machine).
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American philosopher 1921–2004Related quotes
“Asking what the question is, and why the question is asked, is always asking a pertinent question.”
Source: Philosophy and Real Politics (2008), p. 17.

“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”

Two in the Bush (1966)
Context: The attitude of the average person to the world they live in is completely selfish. When I take people round to see my animals, one of the first questions they ask (unless the animal is cute and appealing) is, "what use is it?" by which they mean, "what use is it to them?" To this one can reply "What use is the Acropolis?" Does a creature have to be of direct material use to mankind in order to exist? By and large, by asking the question "what use is it?" you are asking the animal to justify its existence without having justified your own.

Source: The Expanse, Tiamat's Wrath (2019), Chapter 34 (p. 357)

“Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.”
As quoted in The Listener (1978)

“The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.”
Preface
1840s, Philosophical Fragments (1844)

Part 6 : Doing Sixty, p. 270
Moving Beyond Words (1994)