Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
What the French want is coherence, stability and justice. If I am in a favorable position today, it's because my fellow citizens… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
If an image is powerful enough, if it resists us, if, by its obscure coherence, part of it escapes our understanding, then… — Luc Delahaye Copy Share Image
A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Those heart-hammering nightmares that start to lose coherence even as you're waking up from them, but that still manage to leave their… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
I have a strong spiritual commitment, and I try to express that in my work. Salvation cannot be worked out in human… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
In my view the structure of the whole atom was that of an individual, with all its parts interconnected, and the emission… — Johannes Stark Copy Share Image
...assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace, but the… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
When the coherence of the parts of a stone, or even that composition of parts which renders it extended; when these familiar… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's an internal coherence and logic to what they get from [Rush] Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and the rest of these guys. And… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“It partook ... of eternity ... there is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is immune from change, and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“There's no chance of their having a conscious glimpse of the truth as long as they refuse to disturb the things they… — Plato Copy Share Image
It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative… — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has such things,… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The goal is nothing other than the coherence and completeness of the system not only in respect of all details, but also… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Learning to savor the vertigo of doing without answers or making do with fragmentary ones opens up the pleasures of recognizing and… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Degree of conformance to our other beliefs. One of our criteria for the assessment of explanations is coherence with our existing beliefs.” — Michael E Emmering Copy Share Image
People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
It's easy to see why 'American Horror' is freaking people out. The ultraviolent hallucinations never pause long enough to make sense. In… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
I think an artist has the potential to investigate both form and content within one activity, to show that there can be… — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
“I have always clung, or maybe I wanted to cling, to bits and pieces of existence here and there, with no coherence,… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New… — Michael King Copy Share Image
There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Amid chaos of images, we value coherence. We believe in the printed word. And we believe in clarity. And we believe in… — William Shawn Copy Share Image
I believe that if we do have a commonality of beliefs we should clarify them, we should strengthen their coherence and we… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished… — Victor Burgin Copy Share Image
“Logic does not generate new truths, but rather allows one to evaluate existing chains of thought for consistency and coherence. It is… — Ali Almossawi Copy Share Image
It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
Pure earth does not petrify, because the predominance of dryness over [i.e. in] the earth endows it not with coherence but rather… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
“When you meditate and connect to something greater, you can create and then memorize such coherence between your thoughts and feelings that… — Joe Dispenza Copy Share Image
I do think that the long poem speaks for an inner need for continuity. We live in a time of so many… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Conformism is essential to the group coherence and 'spirit.' The whole impetus behind tribalism of this kind is conservative: Belonging to the… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
You're suddenly seeing the coherence and the interconnectedness of everything, left to right, top to bottom, front to back. It's all connected,… — Henry Wessel, Jr Copy Share Image
![“There's an internal coherence and logic to what they get from [Rush] Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and the rest of these guys. And they sound very convincing, they're very self-confident, and they have an answer to everything - a crazy answer, but it's an answer. And it's our fault if that goes on. So one…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9cc/noam-chomsky-42_answers_there-s-an-internal-coherence-and-logic_2377640.jpg)
![“The wholeness, coherence, identity, which we attribute to the depicted scene [in a photograph] is a projection, a refusal of an impoverished reality in favour of an imagined plenitude.” quote by Victor Burgin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3c1/victor-burgin-50840_attributes_the-wholeness-coherence-identity-which-w_1939856.jpg)
![“Pure earth does not petrify, because the predominance of dryness over [i.e. in] the earth endows it not with coherence but rather with crumbliness. In general, stone is formed in two ways only (a) through the hardening of clay, and (b) by the congelation [of waters].” quote by Avicenna](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4b0/avicenna-19211_clay_pure-earth-does-not-petrify-because-the_878916.png)
