Quotes About Coherence

Religion provides a feeling that life is ultimately meaningful. It does so by explaining coherently and compellingly what transcends or overshadows everyday life, in ways that other aspects of culture (such as an educational system or a belief in democracy) cannot (Geertz, 1973; Wuthnow, 1988).

Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement.

When things line up, the music just flows.

There are no fragments within the BJP.

I do not separate France from Europe.

En las profundidades de nuestro inconsciente hay una obsesiva necesidad de un universo lógico y coherente. Pero el universo real se halla siempre un paso más allá de la lógica.

Nevoia persistent? de univers logic È™i coerent este profund ancorat? în inconÈ™tientul uman. Dar universul real se afl? întotdeauna cu un pas în faÈ›a logicii.

Ah, coherence, that old canard. All the books are full of it, in all the classrooms the teachers are chalking it up on the blackboard; the mother dreams of it while her baby is at her breast - and there you are, sitting here, asking me about coherence. You must have had an unusually misspent youth.

The point is that if Christianity is compatible with anything and everything it is nothing.

Existe una diferencia esencial entre «tener ideas» y «someter estas ideas a prueba». Lo característico de los filósofos es comprobar las ideas, averiguar si poseen alguna coherencia y solidez o si encierran algún tipo de vicio de forma, o algún error que las haga inviables.

Give an intellectual any ideal and any evil passion and he will always succeed in harmonizing the twain.

The interpretation of a specific passage must not contradict the total teaching of Scripture on a point. Individual verses do not exist as isolated fragments, but as parts of a whole. To interpret them properly, we must understand their relationship to the whole and to each other. Scripture interprets Scripture.

Maandag stierf hij, 102 jaar oud: Ronald Coase, de man die zijn afkeer van de wiskundige modellen in de economie aldus formuleerde: 'Als je de gegevens maar lang genoeg martelt, zullen ze toegeven'.

Your Core Values are the "glue" that holds your business together.

For him there had to be a reason for everything; it had to make sense – and to make one sense, not two.

A total prohibition against lying is also ethically incoherent in anyone but a true pacifist.

We have this kind of shibboleth which says: what wasn't reasoned into existence can't be reasoned out. The truth I think is rather much closer to this: that people are making desperate efforts, rather heroic efforts, to be reasonable, to have a coherent worldview, and when those efforts become too costly or too embarrassing… dogma loses.

Faith is what credulity becomes when it finally achieves escape velocity from the constraints of terrestrial discourse—constraints like reasonableness, internal coherence, civility, and candor. However

An eye here, lips there, all misplaced and disjointed, all make sense.

All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this.

Lo que pasa es que rara vez pienso; entonces sin darme cuenta, se acumula en mí una multitud de pequeñas metamorfosis, y un buen día se produce una verdadera revolución. Es lo que ha dado a mi vida este aspecto desconcertante, incoherente.

To God he jotted several lines. How my mind has struggled to make coherent sense. I have not been too good at it. But have desired to do your unknowable will, taking it, and you, without symbols. Everything of intensest significance. Especially if divested of me.

Everything he talked about had a kind of logic to it, but so do many things that are nonsense.

En nuestras vidas, desordenadas e imperfectas, lo más parecido que tenemos a la verdad es la coherencia.