Lewis Carroll Quotes
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People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing – but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.
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You should know something, Miriam.... God changed our futures yesterday. There's no other explanation for what happened. And it wasn't the first God. If you ever need hlep, you might want to try the second God.
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The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication.
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A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.
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The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.
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Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.
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The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don't care; the unbiased and apathetic are usually the wisest dudes in the room. If you want to totally misunderstand why something is supposedly important, find the biggest fan of that particular thing and ask him for an explanation. He will tell you everything that doesn't matter to anyone who isn't him. He will describe paradoxical details and share deeply personal anecdotes, and it will all be autobiography; he will simply be explaining who he is by discussing something completely unrelated to his life.
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A young professor I watched in action at one of our large eastern colleges used to stand with his back to the class and mumble explanations of blackboard problems. He was "let out" at the end of two years because students refused to attend his classes. He was given an evasive reason for his dismissal and he left with justifiable bitterness toward the administration. If someone had told him the truth he could have avoided this denouement. Sometimes professors go on for years without any conception of remediable faults which irritate their listeners.
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As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.
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There isnt always an explanation for everything.
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Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.
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Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.
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He who believes needs no explanation.
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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.
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Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.
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For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents.
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If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.
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We stand at the end of the Age of Reason. A new era of the magical explanation of the world is rising.
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Our alleged facts might be true in all kinds of ways without contradicting any truth already known. I will dwell now on only one possible line of explanation, - not that I see any way of elucidating all the new phenomena I regard as genuine, but because it seems probable I may shed a light on some of those phenomena. All the phenomena of the universe are presumably in some way continuous; and certain facts, plucked as it were from the very heart of nature, are likely to be of use in our gradual discovery of facts which lie deeper still.
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What is necessary is that epistemology, instead of being the pre-condition for ontology, should grow in it and with it, being at the same time a means and an object of explanation, helping to uphold, and itself upheld by, ontology, as the parts of any true philosophy mutually will sustain each other.
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As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.
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It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing organism.
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No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
