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Love is the answer to a question that I have forgotten

Song: Reading Time with Pickle, Album: Songs, 2002

...the questions a photographer raises may be more profound than the answers the medium permits.

Rebecca Solnit (2008). “Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics”, p.136, Univ of California Press

Almost everybody thinks about philosophy, even if they don't realize it's philosophy and even if they have no sense of the difficulty of the problems, the array of possible answers.

"Interview with Rebecca Goldstein on Plato at the Googleplex, philosophy for the public, and everything". Interview with Ophelia Benson, www.butterfliesandwheels.org. March 20, 2014.

A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss, Goethe said; a correct answer, Gertrude would have said, is like a slap in the face.

Randall Jarrell (2010). “Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy”, p.68, University of Chicago Press

What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ...: v.1-”

An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.58, Courier Corporation

I admire answers to which no answers can be made.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1977). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1852-1855”, p.190, Harvard University Press

The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.393, Library of America

When people ask, "Why should the rich pay a larger percent of their income than middle-income people?" - my answer is not an answer most people get: It's because their power developed from laws that enriched them.

"SUNDAY INTERVIEW -- Public Citizen Number One / For 30 years, Ralph Nader has been the conscience of corporate America and a thorn in its side. Now, as presidential candidate of the Green Party, he hopes to take his message farther and wider". Interview with Debra J. Saunders, www.sfgate.com. October 13, 1996.