You philosophers ask questions without answers, questions
that have to remain unanswered to deserve being called philoso-
phical. According to you answered questions are only technical
matters. That's what they were to begin with. They were mis-
taken for philosophical questions. You turn to other questions
that seem completely impossible to answer: which by definition
resist every attempt at conquest by our minds. Or what amounts
to the same thing: you declare if the first questions were
answered, that's because they were badly formulated. And you
grant yourselves the privilege of continuing to regard as unre-
solved, that is as well formulated, questions that technical science
believes it answered but in truth only inadequately brought to
the fore. For you solutions are just illusions, failures to maintain
the integrity due being - or some such thing. I hope you have
patience. You'll hold out forever with your incredulity. But don't
be surprised if all the same, through your irresolution, you end
up wearing out your audience.

• Jean-Francois Lyotard, "Can A Thought Go On Without A Body?"