Description Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein

“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