A Quote by Christian Friedrich Hebbel

If anything were FULLY explained, everything would be explained.

Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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Christian Friedrich Hebbel
German - Poet
March 18, 1813 - December 13, 1863

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.

Richard Dawkins

My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained.

Dick Gregory

It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.

Haruki Murakami

When cubism began to take a social form, Metzinger was especially talked about. He explained cubism, while Picasso never explained anything. It took a few years to see that not talking was better than talking too much.

Marcel Duchamp

Anyone who appears to be triggered out of watchfulness and into action by your appearance must be explained. Anyone observing you carefully must be explained. Anyone whose behavior seems to be geared to yours must be explained. If the explanation does not satisfy you, be ready to take appropriate defensive action.

Jeff Cooper

One could pick apart love, examine every filament of attraction, and still it would never be fully explained. It simply was.

Lisa Kleypas

In geology the effects to be explained have almost all occurred already, whereas in these other sciences effects actually taking place have to be explained.

James Croll

Love can never be fully explained.

P. J. O'Rourke

The brain has not explained the mind fully.

Wilder Penfield

I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.

Nancy Pickard

I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else.

Naval Ravikant

[talking about the Holocaust] 'But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained. And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.' 'But this is History. Distance yourselves. Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground. We don't see it, and because we don't see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past. And one of the historian's jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be... even on the Holocaust.

Alan Bennett

Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.

Robert Breault

The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.

Karl Kraus

[Kellyanne] Conway had just explained how they won the presidency. They flipped over 200 counties, and she explained, "Did you ever think, Jennifer [Palmieri], that maybe the problem is that people just don't like your candidate, that Hillary [Clinton] doesn't connect with people, that maybe people don't have anything in common with Hillary, that maybe they see Hillary as a man?"