Explanation Quotes

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.

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of me from the outside in or the inside out - but to put your mind at ease, I built Paul Snider from the outside in.

There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad that tie is.

In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.

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.

I believe the most compelling explanation of Obama's actions is that he is, just like his father, an anti-colonialist.

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.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.