We must do away with all explanation, and description…

“We say it is "explanation" but it is only in "description" that we are in advance of the older stages of knowledge and science.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a…

— Anthony Bourdain

Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they…

— John Cleveland

Christianity also stands in opposition to intellectual, as well as physical, health. To doubt becomes sin. 'Faith means not wanting to know what it…

— Robert Sheaffer

My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in…

— Marilynne Robinson

The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title

— Gene Tierney

The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.

— Janet Malcolm

Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but also the…

— George Grey

Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.

— Alan Keyes

I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.

— Duane Michals

First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized…

— John Rawls

“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow…

— G.K. Chesterton

It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of the work…

— Catherine Booth

Developing fewer features allows you to conserve development resources and spend more time refining those features that users really need. Fewer features mean fewer…

— Jakob Nielsen