Explicable Quotes
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Nothing important is completely explicable.
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More Explicable Quotes
You explain nothing,O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable.
Paul Claudel— Recalled on his death, 23 Feb1955.
The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Calvary, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin.
abbott eliot kittredge— P. 69. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
This is extraordinary. We live in a culture where the terms fascist and racist are thrown about, if anything, too easily and too frequently. Yet here is a man whose every word and deed is easily explicable once you know the single essential thing about him: He is a member of a fascist splinter group that believes it is the salvation of the Catholic Church.
mel gibson— Christopher Hitchens, Mel Gibson Isn't Just an Angry Narcissist: His tirades are the distilled violence, cruelty, and bigotry of right-wing Catholic ideology., Slate, July. 19, 2010
Everything is explicable in the terms of the behavior of a small child.
stanisław lem— Ch. 14: "The Old Mimoid", p. 199
Knowledge appears as the grace of God. In the higher knowledge, since the atman is in reality not an object, the cause of its knowledge is not further explicable. In spite of this, religious practice recognizes certain means by which knowledge of the atman may be promoted.
— From "Outline of the Vedanta system of philosophy according to Shankara"
Phenomena appear, in a word, to be explicable on the ground of development . We have already seen that various leading animal forms represent stages in the embryotic progress of the highest the human being. Our brain goes through the various stages of a fish's, a reptile's, and a mammifer's brain, and finally becomes human.
— p.306 (Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844))
The Russian debacle is rather appalling but quite explicable. Lenin and Trotsky appear to me to be of the SPGB type or the wilder types of the SDP.
— Clement Attlee in a letter to his brother Tom, 20 March 1918.
— quoted in Clem Attlee: A Biography by Francis Beckett, 2001.
