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Tag Name "Incomprehensible" (147)

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The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies.
Lawrence Eagleburger
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But in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked (incomprehensible anomalyl) that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable not concealed, but incomprehensible it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure unsearchable sea.
John Ruskin
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The truth is, that the greatest enemies to the doctrines of Jesus are those, calling themselves the expositors of them, who have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely incomprehensible, and without any foundation in His genuine words.
Thomas Jefferson
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The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.
Paul Valery
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Not only is it mind-blowing that God would consider me - us - worthy of his love, but it's flat-out incomprehensible that God would give us his wisdom, compassion, guidance, and comfort by giving us his Word. It's totally humbling and such an honor. Thank you Lord!
Jennifer Rothschild
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An inexplicable fact is infinitely preferable to an incomprehensible mystery.
Frederick Soddy
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The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!
Jane Austen
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The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense especially words from the ancient languages.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.
D. H. Lawrence
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Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.
Jean Giraudoux
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Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.
Honore de Balzac
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In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.
Starhawk
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No wonder he was so good with horses, I thought blearily, feeling his fingers rubbing gently behind my ears, listening to the soothing, incomprehensible speech. If I were a horse, I’d let him ride me anywhere.
Diana Gabaldon
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Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself.
Jacques Maritain
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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
Zelda Fitzgerald
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The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Albert Einstein
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Bring something incomprehensible into the world!
Gilles Deleuze
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--There is no justice in love...it is only the glimpse or parable of an incomprehensible reality... the eternal breaking in on the the temporal.
Marilynne Robinson
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The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.
Robert Anton Wilson
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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
Eugene Ionesco
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When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
Walter Darby Bannard
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No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God what we know is science.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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