Coherently Define Quotes & Sayings

Socrates' dialectic was a Greek, rational version of the Indian brahmodya, the competition that attempted to formulate absolute truth but always ended in silence. For the Indian sages, the moment of insight came when they realized the inadequacy of their words, and thus intuited the ineffable. In that final moment of silence, they had sensed the brahman, even though they could not define it coherently. Socrates was also trying to elicit a moment of truth, when his interlocutors appreciated the creative profundity of human ignorance. — Anonymous

The arts are a celebration of life. — Michael Douglas

Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving and beatifying that existence. He endowed him with rational faculties, by the help of which, to discern and pursue such things, as were consistent with his duty and interest, and invested him with an inviolable right to personal liberty, and personal safety. — Alexander Hamilton

I'd originally intended 'Stand By Me' for the Drifters. — Ben E. King

The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads — H.L. Mencken

Margaret Kochamma's tiny, ordered life relinquished itself to this truly baroque bedlam with the quiet gasp of a warm body entering a chilly sea. — Arundhati Roy

It's a very good feeling to be around a man who thinks women are juicy. — Lee Grant

In certain areas I don't function well and in other areas I function very well. I'm very good professionally. I have good discipline, I'm able to write every day and do films and not go six times over the budget. I mean I'm a coherent person, but I also don't like to go through tunnels when I travel. I'm claustrophobic. — Woody Allen

I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming. — Kristen Stewart

Aluminum is the most common metal in the earth's crust, almost twice as abundant as iron. And one common class of aluminum minerals, collectively called alum, has been in use since at least Greek and Roman times. — Sam Kean

My first instinct, the product of a lifetime of insecurities, was to wonder what I had done wrong. — Stephenie Meyer