{"id":3828,"date":"2011-03-10T05:46:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T05:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2011\/03\/10\/the-only-truly-serious-questions-are-ones-that\/"},"modified":"2011-03-10T05:46:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T05:46:11","slug":"the-only-truly-serious-questions-are-ones-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/03\/10\/the-only-truly-serious-questions-are-ones-that\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>#books #reading<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milan_Kundera\">Milan Kundera<\/a>, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limits of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-video_graphics","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-ZK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3672,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/03\/15\/a-visual-journal-of-maldives-theory\/","url_meta":{"origin":3828,"position":0},"title":"a visual journal of maldives \u00bb Theory","author":"monochromist","date":"March 15, 2011","format":"link","excerpt":"a visual journal of maldives \u00bb Theoryhttp:\/\/www.anthology-of-art.net\/inside\/index.html The relationship between writing and art: http:\/\/www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk\/contemporary-art\/sensationalisation-of-art-and-dialogue.htm 2 Comments \u00bb artists in response to their dynamic cultural environments. 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