Quote for Saturday

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was a German-born American political philosopher. This particular nugget was published posthumously in 1977:

"It is more than likely that if men were ever to lose
the appetite for meaning which we call thinking,
and cease to ask unanswerable questions, they would
lose not only the ability to produce those thought-
things which we call works of art but also the capacity
for asking all the unanswerable questions upon which
every civilization is founded"