{"quotes":[{"text":"You may ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings who have witnessed the sack of a city or the falling to pieces of a people to desire to set down what they have witnesses for the benefit of unknown heirs or of generations infinitely remote; or, if you please, just to get the sight out of their heads.","author":"Ford Madox Ford","tags":["explanation","history","memory"],"id":377,"author_id":"Ford+Madox+Ford"},{"text":"Horror is a curiousity, it's used we to go over on real horror it just prepare us for the hard battles. To laugh at somebody's harm... There is even and scientific explanation.","author":"Deyth Banger","tags":["battles","curiousty","explanation","film","go","hard","horror","over","used"],"id":5128,"author_id":"Deyth+Banger"},{"text":"People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.","author":"Paul David Tripp","tags":["explanation","fallen","imaginations","people","struggling"],"id":17929,"author_id":"Paul+David+Tripp"},{"text":"Every pedagogical situation can be thought of as a kind of triangle among three parties: the student, the teacher, and the world that student and teacher investigate together.","author":"Aaron Hirsh","tags":["explanation","teaching","technology"],"id":20836,"author_id":"Aaron+Hirsh"},{"text":"In love, nothing exists between heart and heart.Speech is born out of longing,True description from the real taste.The one who tastes, knows;the one who explains, lies.How can you describe the true form of SomethingIn whose presence you are blotted out?And in whose being you still exist?And who lives as a sign for your journey?","author":"Rabia Al-Adawiyya","tags":["being","explain","explaining","explanation","form","forms","heart","journey","lies","longing","love","speech"],"id":38087,"author_id":"Rabia+Al-Adawiyya"},{"text":"It's not something a kid like you should've gotten ahold of.","author":"Shinjirou","tags":["bluesy-fluesy","explanation","kids","sarcasm","spell-crest","taboo-tattoo","weapon"],"id":41339,"author_id":"Shinjirou"},{"text":"Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked askance at this strange habit of mathematicians, which has changed little from Pythagoras to our day.","author":"Gian-Carlo Rota","tags":["change","explanation","habit","math","mathematics","philosophers","philosophy","psychiatrists","psychiatry","pythagoras","science","scientists","strange"],"id":42991,"author_id":"Gian-Carlo+Rota"},{"text":"God is not an alternative to science as an explanation, he is not to be understood merely as a God of the gaps, he is the ground of all explanation: it is his existence which gives rise to the very possibility of explanation, scientific or otherwise. It is important to stress this because influential authors such as Richard Dawkins will insist on conceiving of God as an explanatory alternative to science – an idea that is nowhere to be found in theological reflection of any depth. Dawkins is therefore tilting at a windmill - dismissing a concept of God that no serious thinker believes in anyway. Such activity is not necessarily to be regarded as a mark of intellectual sophistication.","author":"John C. Lennox","tags":["alternative","dawkins","evolution","existence","explanation","god","god-of-gaps","intellectual","lennox","science","scientific"],"id":47331,"author_id":"John+C.+Lennox"},{"text":"He did it because he could not help himself, which explains everything and nothing.","author":"Johnny Rich","tags":["determinism","explain","explanation","fate","why"],"id":75247,"author_id":"Johnny+Rich"},{"text":"Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in terms the non-expert could understand. He was brilliant at cultivating a sense of control, even as events spun far beyond what could be managed with any certainty. He could will into being the confidence that eluded others, those less self-assured and, maybe sensibly, on humbler terms with the world.","author":"Ron Suskind","tags":["confidence","explanation","humility","uncertainty"],"id":77442,"author_id":"Ron+Suskind"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":61,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}