Quotes of Explicitly - somelinesforyou

“ Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning. ”

- Alfred North Whitehead

“ People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth. ”

- Raoul Vaneigem

“ The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems his managers can solve, and never to act on problems when he is explicitly reviewing status. I once knew a boss who invariably picked up the phone to give orders before the end of the first paragraph in a status report… ”

- Frederick P. Brooks

“ What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined. ”

- Archibald MacLeish
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