Eternally Fascinating Search

Hunting For Something ....Far Away

We are star struck beings,looking out at the dark skies above,looking for responses to questions that have always been repeated before.

We wonder because we feel fascinated by our ability to do so.We uncover answers that were already known.

Yet.

The search is endless.It always will be.That's because the preying mind is lifted far high above its humdrum existence.It meanders between the smokey galaxies and gritty atoms.It weaves quivering threads of dreams.It astounds itself through the infinite reflection that it witnesses in you and me.

Here  is what some luminaries feel about the search.

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When the answer cannot be put into words, neither can the question be put into words.

The riddle does not exist.

If a question can be framed at all, it is also possible to answer it. (…)

For doubt can exist only where a question exist, a question only where an answer exist, and an answer only where something can be said.

We feel that even when all possible scientific questions have been asnwered, the problem of life remain completely untouched. Of course there are then no questions left, and this itself is the answer.

The solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of the problem.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein,  philosopher and pioneer of Logical Positivism

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“I’ve been caught, so to speak—like someone who was given something wonderful when he was a child, and he’s always looking for it again. I’m always looking, like a child, for the wonders I know I’m going to find—maybe not every time, but every once in a while.” “

— Richard Feynman,  physicist

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Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

— Frederick Seitz, American physicist and a pioneer of solid state physics

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“To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.”

― Jiddu Krishnamurti, philosopher

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“How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-half our great theological and metaphysical problems-are like that.”

― C.S. Lewis,author

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“Whatever you eye falls on - for it will fall on what you love - will lead you to the questions of your life, the questions that are incumbent upon you to answer, because that is how the mind works in concert with the eye. The things of this world draw us where we need to go.”

― Mary Rose O'Reilley

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“In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live.”

― Sarah Brightman

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“Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.”

― Scott Westerfeld

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“When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.”

― C.S. Lewis

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“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke

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“The question is very understandable, but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far. Yes, why do they make still more gigantic planes, still heavier bombs and, at the same time, prefabricated houses for reconstruction? Why should millions be spent daily on the war and yet there's not a penny available for medical services, artists, or for poor people?

Why do some people have to starve, while there are surpluses rotting in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?”

― Anne Frank,teenager WW II

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Over to you my friends.........