Understanding a question is half an answer.
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You ask a question, I said, to which a reply can only be given in a parable. Yes, Socrates; and that is a way of speaking to which you are not at all accustomed, I suppose.
Tell me, Socrates, have you got a nurse? Why do you ask such a question, I said, when you ought rather to be answering? Because she leaves you to snivel, and never wipes your nose: she has not even taught you to know the shepherd from the sheep. What makes you say that? I replied.
Before him exist neither question nor answer.
It is the evening that questions thus from within me.
I have never pondered over questions that are not questions.
Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind.
But questions that don’t answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered.
For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist.
If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.
