Quote by Ken Kesey

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer-- they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is

Summary

This quote suggests that seeking the answer to a question is not as important as embracing the mystery itself. It demonstrates that continuously searching for understanding keeps one engaged and curious, whereas believing that a definitive answer has been found might halt intellectual exploration. By nurturing the mysterious and allowing for the growth of enigmatic ideas, one can cultivate a sense of wonder and maintain an ongoing pursuit of knowledge. The quote proposes that the human desire for the unknown surpasses the need for certainty and conclusive answers.

Topics

Mystery

By Ken Kesey

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

Music Poetry Age

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other si

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world

MaryAnne Radmacher Hershey

Travel

We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I

We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it.

Jerry Pournelle

Science

The world is whole beyond human knowing.

The world is whole beyond human knowing.

Life

They always win who side with God.

They always win who side with God.

Frederick W. Faber

Winning Winners

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clari

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

Beauty

Because our children had had the privilege of growing up whe

Because our children had had the privilege of growing up where they'd raised a lot of food. They were never hungry. They could share their food with people. And so, you share your lives with people.

Ella Baker, In Moving the Mounta

There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.

There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.

Home

hati terikat, jiwa bebas.--jika kau mengikat dan merantai ha

hati terikat, jiwa bebas.--jika kau mengikat dan merantai hatimu kuatkuat, kau dapat memberikan banyak kebebasan pada jiwamu: itulah yang ku katakan pada suatu hari. akan tetapi orangorang tidak percaya, kecuali saat mereka benarbenar menemukannya

Friedrich Nietzsche

Existentialism

Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.

Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.

Soren Kierkegaard

Mystery

I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in musi

I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in music, I will go and live back in Wales - when I am an old person, if I live to be an old person. The water I miss, and the air, there's something different about it. And I miss the simple life.

Music

I like being at home and cooking.

I like being at home and cooking.

Home