Quotes About Explanation

Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.

Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.

If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter through the former.

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A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities.

some working explanation of the universe is necessary – however absurd – to the happiness of every individual who seeks to do his duty in the world and face the problems of life.

Maybe all of this was prevarication and excuses and not an afterword at all.

el Nuevo Testamento no solo se construye sobre el Antiguo Testamento, sino que también explica, interpreta y aplica el Antiguo Testamento.

I don't quite know how to explain Jesus' presence—intense and terrifying and gentle at the exact same time.

I need to explain all this to Adam in private. I can't get McGillicuddy to explain it to him. Something will be lost in translation." "Well, excuse me that I can't look at him all googly-eyed," my brother said. "And he's liable to punch you," I said.

I said , have you seen your butt?" "Is that a rhetorical question?" I craned my neck to take a gander at my backside. Chloe clarified, "She means you have 'boy toy' written across the back of your jeans." "Oh." I nodded. "They're Josh's." "You say that as if it explains everything.

The more we feel compelled to keep explaining ourselves, the less like others we become.

His explanation takes two minutes exactly. The shale lies a mile underground, has lain there since before there was a Pennsylvania, before a single human being walked the earth.

My companions could make observations. Sloane could generate relevant statistics. If there'd been witness testimony, Michael could have told us who was exhibiting signs of guilt. But here, now, looking at the pictures, this was my domain. I would have to backtrack to explain how I knew, to figure out how I knew -- but I was certain.

I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to explain to Zoe one of the very saddest notions in love and life: sometimes the timing is wrong--and sometimes you realize the heart of the matter way to late in the game.

Ma knows everything except the things she doesn't remember right, or sometimes she says I'm too young for her to explain a thing.

D'Arvit,' he blurted, shocked that Artemis's stories had been, in fact, historical rather than fictional. Sister Jeronima mistook the blurt for a sneeze. 'Bless you, chico,' she said. 'The night air is cool.' Myles did not bother to correct her, because an explanation would be difficult, considering that the word D'Arvit was a fairy swear word, according to Artemis's fairy tales.

guilt force justification!

Comme ils ne supportent pas l'ignorance, les hommes créent des savoirs. Ils inventent des myths, ils inventent des dieux, ils inventent un dieu, ils inventent des sciences. Les dieux changent, se succèdent, meurent, les modèles cosmolgiques également, et ne persiste qu'une ambiance, celle d'expliquer.

The more man understands and masters nature the less he needs to use religion as a scientific explanation and as a magical device for controlling nature.

Let your deeds be judged, and from your deeds your real intentions, but know that a free person owes an explanation only to himself—to his reason and his conscience—and to the few who may have a justified claim for explanation.

A free person owes an explanation only to himself, to his reason and his conscious, and to the few who may have a justified claim for explanation.

It's just that, in the modern era, we're supposed to believe that human motives and emotions can be explained by psychological theories.

You know, when there's a noise breaking into your sleep and you don't want to wake up, you can dream a long complicated dream that explains the whole noise away.