#explanation

And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation? ↗

— Julio Cortazar

#explanation #idea #you

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#allegorical #arbitrary #attaches #be true #categories

People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination. ↗

— Paul David Tripp

#fallen #imaginations #people #struggling #change

It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed. ("The Wendigo") ↗

— Algernon Blackwood

#explanation #explanations #experience

Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#love #mystery #love

Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well. ↗

— Alec Wilkinson

#intuition #self-knowledge #age

Fred is staying with his mother these holidays. She's living in London for six months, in Chelsea, studying Georgian underwear at the National Art Library. It's a thesis, not a fetish. ↗

— Fiona Wood

#underwear #art

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted. ↗

— Michael Behe

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The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

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