Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of…

Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you engage in positive thinking to overcome negative thoughts, the negative thoughts are still there acting. That's still incoherence. It's not enough just…

— David Bohm

And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I…

— David Bohm

Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the source of…

— George Santayana

“There is good reason to believe that the administration of justice is infected by predictable incoherence in several domains. The evidence is drawn in…

— Daniel Kahneman

“It seemed a ruse that fear of death should be the sole motivation for living and, yet, to quell this fear made the prospect…

— Ashim Shanker

Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets out al-Ghazali's…

— Peter Adamson

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted…

— Wallace Stevens

We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive dualism, revised…

— Maira Kalman

Interruption, incoherence, surprise are the ordinary conditions of our life. They have even become real needs for many people, whose minds are no longer…

— Paul Valery

Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood…

— Anonymous

No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself

— Paul Auster

It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely the ravings…

— Thomas Jefferson

Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by…

— Luke Davies

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the…

— Anonymous