Long ago in a cave on a mountain in the Himalayas a sage thought that the answer to the question of why we are here was ‘to ask questions’. His fellow sage thought that such questions were fatuous as reason was a human faculty not a natural one and nature never asks why. The third sage in the cave who was younger than his fellow troglodytes thought that self-awareness demanded answers and created the questions to support the sense of self.
Three people separated from the rest of humanity, with nothing to do but think, resolved upon existence itself as the key to self knowledge. They did so because existence is married to experience and experience informs our reason. They could not think of eternal death as central to human life because they had no knowledge of death save as the end of experience and reason as they knew it.
So it is when we ask any questions. They always arise from our experience. To attempt to generate questions about the unknown is always to guess both at the questions and the answers. We base everything upon things we know, and we are at our best when we reflect deeply and cut ourselves off from experiences that take our reason away from us.
You see a sage doesn’t need answers, a sage just needs the best questions.