“ If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself. ”
- Michel de Montaigne- Copy
“ We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe. ”
- Miguel de Unamuno- Copy
“ The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
“ I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself? ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall. ”
- Dante Alighieri- Copy
“ There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ we need to abandon the idea that wisdom is knowing everything — the whys, the wherefores, the how-tos. Wisdom is often more subtle, both far simpler and exceedingly more complex. For wisdom requires the discerning, the listening to, the acknowledgement of nudges and notions, of senses and sensations, of the minute and what we often mistakenly assume is the mundane… ”
- Jean M. Blomquist- Copy
“ Wherefore a man can know nothing by himself, save after a natural manner, which is only that which he attains by means of the senses. For this cause he must have the phantasms and the forms of objects present in themselves and in their likenesses; otherwise it cannot be, for, as philosophers say: Ab objecto et potentia paritur notitia… ”
- St. John of the Cross- Copy
“ Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of birth and burials is impaired; wherefore by laborious conjectures and calculations to deduce the number of people from the births and burials, may be ingenious, but very preposterous. ”
- William Petty- Copy
“ Wherefore when a man giveth out his money upon condition that be may not demand it back until a certain time to come, he certainly may take a compensation for this inconvenience which he admits against himself. ”
- William Petty- Copy
“ Actual philosophers… are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past — they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
“ A radical is one of whom people say "He goes too far." A conservative, on the other hand, is one who "doesn't go far enough." Then there is the reactionary, "one who doesn't go at all." All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have coined the term "progressive… ”
- Woodrow T. Wilson- Copy
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