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- As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour… — C. D. Broad
- Learning to explain phenomena such that one continues to be fascinated by the failure of one's explanations creates a continuing cycle of… — Roger Schank
- The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative… — Hannah Arendt
- I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different. — Martin Gore
- You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on… — C.S. Lewis