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 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
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
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
Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
“I miss talking to him. Every time I come across something I think he'd like, I just wish I could call him… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
“Facts and values are entangled in science. It's not because scientists are biased, not because they are partial or influenced by other… — Alva Noë Copy Share Image
If there is to be responsible party government, the party label must be something more than a mere device for securing office.… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Freedom! To fill people's mailboxes, eyes, ears and brains with commercial rubbish against their will, television programs that are impossible to watch… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have… — Samuel Johnson 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
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
“Could you possibly be a little more incoherent?" asked Olivenko. "There are bits of this I'm almost understanding, and I'm sure that's… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
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
we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the heart of experience there is an order and a coherence which we might purprise if we were attentive enough,… — Lawrence Durrell 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
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
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
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
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
Consider the case of a person who holds a view with probability 1. Then coherence says that it is no use having… — Dennis Lindley Copy Share Image
Our reliance on the validity of a scientific conclusion depends ultimately on a judgment of coherence; and as there can exist no… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
We do not possess an official certificate of birth for worship of one God. But the family line is clear: the Jews… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
I am doubtful that there will be any sort of real coherence of Muslim societies into a single political system run by… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Similarly, dance is not just a raging sea of unrelated bodily movements; the relationship of those movements to one another is what… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of history's high… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I mean, you hear the word 'globalization' over and over and over again. Globalization, globalization, globalization. Rarely has a word gone so… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
The craft of putting together a performance on film or television is incredibly intricate; you're putting together a story that is completely… — Gabriel Mann Copy Share Image
Overall, because branding is about creating and sustaining trust it means delivering on promises. The best and most successful brands are completely… — Wally Olins Copy Share Image
You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our… — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
We must focus much more on developing countries' own policies and priorities, and increase policy and operational coherence between national, regional and… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image