Friday, December 21, 2018

“The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.” – Claude Levi-Strauss

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst
20 December
Some questions in life have answers that are not nuanced, or subtle, or conditional. I used to make that point to the guys in my prison classroom by reminding them how inadequate they'd find the following exchange with their girlfriends: "So, tell me: are you pregnant?" "Well, yes and no."

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