„For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.“

— Carl Sagan

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„If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.“
— Haruki Murakami
„Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.“
— H.L. Mencken
„No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.“
— Lewis Carroll
„He knew what 'I love you' meant, and he knew it was good, but he didn't understand why it was an explanation for anything.“
— Cassandra Clare
„Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.“
— Hunter S. Thompson
„No, I'm not religious I'm sorry to say. There is no time now to be religious.“
— Hermann Hesse