Edmund Phelps Quotes

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

I'm here to make sense.

Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.'

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

I want people to make sense of what I'm talking about.

when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.

Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.

For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything.

I just wanted to tell good stories that helped explain the world to people.

It all depends what you mean by.

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

What we take anything to be profoundly affects how we go about describing it, and how we describe something profoundly affects how we go about explaining, accounting for, or understanding what is what we are, in a sense, defining, by our description.

Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation.

Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.

Time will explain.

And those moments that I find mind busting. Meaning like there's a word that I find in a weird place. I love the process of going to the writer and working that out, because that's just basic communication.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn’t make any sense if quoted as it stands. The average man ought to be allowed a quotation of no less than three sentences, one to make his statement and two to explain what he meant. Ralph Waldo Emerson was about the only one who could stand having his utterances broken up into sentence quotations, and every once in a while even he doesn’t sound so sensible in short snatches.

I do not understand this analogy," Mencheres muttered.

Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.

One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.

Possessing a correct interpretation of each individual doctrine is not sufficient; we must also learn to hold each doctrine in harmony with the others.

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.

Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words