Quotes: explanation
Quotes 1 till 15 of 29.
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Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
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Good luck needs no explanation.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
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Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
Source: Mere Christianity (1952) -
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.
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If something has an explanation, you can explain it. If it has no explanation, you should explain why you cannot explain it.
Source: Artificial Societies of Intelligent Agents (2001) -
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test: though a different opinion prevails in this country.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
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Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.
