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«It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it»
Author: Ronald Knox
(Theologian, Writer)
| About:
Civilization,
Culture,
Devil
| Keywords:
explanation
«On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation»
«In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
an explanation, came, explanation, for anything, in fact, right-down
«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.»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
abstract, discussion, explanation, parity, prevails, Rights of Man, shrink, shrink from
«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.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
| Keywords:
acute, a good deal, egotism, explanation, Freud, good deal, observer, Sex and
«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.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Myths
| Keywords:
Blood and, description, descriptions, explanation, human blood, myth, narrate, whole blood
«No explanation ever explains the necessity of making one.»
«I wish he would explain his explanation»
«I may have said the same thing before...but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
am, an explanation, before, different, explanation, I am, may, said, same, sure, sure thing
«Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Love,
Suffering
| Keywords:
amount, explanation, extraordinary, possible worlds
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