“Every why has a wherefore.”
William Shakespeare
“I hate and love - wherefore I cannot tell, but by my tortures know the fact too well”
Catullus
“There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.”
“Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? Deny thy father, and refuse thy name”
“Wherefore, Nietzsche concluded that the chief characteristic of a moral system was its tendency to perpetuate itself unchanged, and to destroy all who questioned it or denied it”
Henry Louis Mencken
“For every why he had a wherefore”
Samuel Butler
“And wherefore do you want to be immortal? you ask me, wherefore? Frankly, I do not understand the question, for it is to ask the reason of the reason, the end of the end, the principle of the principle.”
Miguel de Unamuno