“The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or not, they represent a fair amount of thinking about the questions.” ThinkingKindProblemLiteratureAnswersAmountFairsRaisesSolve Book:Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962 Source: Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962
“Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.” MenPersonsReasonSeemsAnswersSilenceGreaterWiseFoolFairsSatisfiedOccasionsBreedingUnreasonable Author:Plutarch
“Why should an atheist pay more taxes so that a church which he despises should pay no taxes? That's a fair question. How can the apologists for the church exemption answer it?” ShouldChurchAnswersPayTaxesFairsAtheistDespiseExemption Author:E. Haldeman-Julius
“An officer should never speak ironically or sarcastically to an enlisted man, since the latter does not have a fair chance to answer back. The use of profanity and epithets comes under the same headings. The best argument for a man keeping his temper is that nobody else wants it; and when he voluntary throws it away, he loses a main prop to his own position.” MenWantShouldDoeUseSpeakLosesChanceAnswersPositionFairsArgumentLatterOfficersTemperHeadingsPropsProfanityEpithetEnlisted Author:Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall