But the explanations fell apart in her hands. Everything true was too hard to write--he was too much to lose. Everything she… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Lacan , Derrida and Foucault are the perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic personality, trapped in verbal formulas and perennially defeated… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Ah, well, when you explain it like that, it seems obvious," said Mudge. "Of course, it always seems obvious once it's been… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
If you want to get lost in the jungle rhythm, get down on the ground and pretend you're swimming. — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Nobody reads anymore in America. Reading has become the least effective delivery system for narrative. That's sad because prose is the means… — David Simon Copy Share Image
It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
The strange and wonderful Book of Job treats of the same subject as we are discussing; its contents are a fiction, conceived… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Science usually operates in sort of three modes, things that are well established, we know what we're talking about, more highly confident.… — Stephen Schneider Copy Share Image
I think we have a free will, and at the same moment we don't. We have to live with that. It doesn't… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
There is, of course, great value in belonging to a group. Safety in numbers, for one. But there is also a mathematical… — Gregory Berns Copy Share Image
The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user… — Avinash Persaud Copy Share Image
Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child? — William Godwin Copy Share Image
...the girl with the tip-tilted nose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose red cheeks and the lily-white neck and shoulders who gave the… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
Feminism is just a way for ugly women to get into the mainstream of America. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I believe in being completely open to the most unlikely explanation. — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
Cinderella's glass shoe was the perfect size.... so why did it slip off as she ran?- It must have been to attract… — Ai Yazawa Copy Share Image
