Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There was no magic encounter for me with a whale in the ocean; no being zapped by a whale as I snorkelled… — Sue Arnold Copy Share Image
My first reaction in pastoral care is not to explain. And again, I don't think the primary purpose of the Bible is… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“I think that's the way people absorb television. All the explanations in Doctor Who are there if that's your bag, but they're… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
What is the origin of the urge, the fascincation that drives physicists, mathematicians, and presumably other scientists as well? Psychoanalysis suggests that… — David Ruelle Copy Share Image
Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want. — Ali Vincent Copy Share Image
The present moment, though, is outside of time, it’s Eternity. In India they use the word “karma” for lack of any better… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The thing I think I have learned from Wittgenstein is the importance of not making things up: philosophers should not invent problems,… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
One of the things I found is that the things we want to say for well-intentioned motives often cause more harm than… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people’s satisfaction but to call attention to… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues are so complex, but that people do not… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The nature of Christ is, I grant it, from one end to another, a web of mysteries; but this mysteriousness does not… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It is a matter of record that in the German Election of 1933, the Communist Party was ordered by its leaders to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Evolution is a fact. It is the best explanation of what is known from observations. It's a theory as powerful as the… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Perhaps, when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Feeling very happy - why? An explanation is needed. No, happiness needs no explanation, happiness is its own explanation. God is creating… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
People are upset. They know something is wrong. But they don't know what. The real explanation is too complicated. They won't sit… — Bill Bonner Copy Share Image
