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Tag Name "Explanation" (596)

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But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.
Paul Ricoeur
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Americans get very simple explanations of what happens to them.
Mick Jagger
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It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and which can only be a consequence of their inability to perceive clearly the relation between these two subjects, introduced much obscurity and confusion into their explanations.
Rene Descartes
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Sometimes I feel that a more rational explanation for all that has happened during my lifetime is that I am still only thirteen years old, reading Jules Verne or H. G. Wells, and have fallen asleep.
Stanislaw Ulam
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I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.
Peter Weir
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London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is said that words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual matter as a twentieth-century Englishman. His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themselves.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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I have another explanation [of Brexit]: In its 43 years of EU membership, Britain has never been able to decide whether it wants to fully or only partially belong to the EU.
Jean-Claude Juncker
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Titus Bramble: The only explanation for his existence in the Premiership is that he is already here.
Pete Gill
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Things from the heart don't have an explanation.
Pope Francis
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The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.
Isabel Allende
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A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will be your explanation.” Sabbaths 1999 IV
Wendell Berry
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You should know something, Miriam.... God changed our futures yesterday. There's no other explanation for what happened. And it wasn't the first God. If you ever need hlep, you might want to try the second God.
Ted Dekker
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I think from my point of view - I won't say it doesn't matter whether [Darwinian explanations] are right or wrong, it's just sufficient in some cases, for me, to be able to say, Well, at least it's not totally implausible from a Darwinian point of view.
Richard Dawkins
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Sometimes we want things we were not meant to have. Because he loves us, the Father says no. Faith trusts that no. Faith is willing not to have what God is not willing to give. Furthermore, faith does not insist upon an explanation. It is enough to know His promises to give what is good-he knows so much more about us than we do.
Elisabeth Elliot
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Who then will explain the explanation?
Lord Byron
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A psychological explanation of our feelings is not a moral explanation of our conduct.
James Rachels
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For those who believe, no explanation is necessary for those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice.
Joseph Dunninger
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The thing I think I have learned from Wittgenstein is the importance of not making things up: philosophers should not invent problems, and they should also be conscious of the risk of inventing pointless 'technical' machinery which do not offer real explanations, but often just re-state the known facts in a more complex way.
Tim Crane
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The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.
Robert Zoellick
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On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time. You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime. She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain. Don't bother asking for explanations, she'll just tell you that she came in the year of the cat.
Al Stewart
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Hey, Ms. P, Tad called, what's going on? She let out a slow breath before she answered. You won't believe this... Brian Murrey tried to eat Scott Morgan. Nick's eyes widened at the unexpected explanation. Had he heard that right?
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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