Quotes About Confounding

Quando si riuscì, almeno entro una certa misura, a dare una prima risposta al problema, risultò, come poi doveva puntualmente ripetersi nel campo degli studi solaristici, che la spiegazione non faceva che sostituire un enigma con un altro, a volte ancor più sconcertante.

Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.

The world is full of incomprehensible words

Faith aside, witchcraft served an eminently useful purpose. The aggravating, the confounding, the humiliating all dissolved in its cauldron. It made sense of the unfortunate and the eerie, the sick child and the rancid butter along with the killer cat. What else, shrugged one husband, could have caused the black and blue marks on his wife's arm?

I seemed to float not into clearness, but into a darker obscure, and within a minute there had come to me out of my very pity the appalling alarm of his perhaps being innocent. It was for the instant confounding and bottomless, for if he were innocent, what then on earth was I?

Where the deepest word ends, there music begins with its supersensuous and all-confounding intimations.

that exasperating quality for which we have no name, which certainly is not accuracy, and which is quite the opposite of judgement, yet which catches the mind as brambles do our clothes.

You mortals baffle me.

That the dumbest shit ive ever seen

He had always been a difficult creature to fathom.

It's so damn complex. If you ever think you have the solution to this, you're wrong and you're

It's just so strange," she explained. "I can't even grasp what it must mean.

Self-injury forces us to look pain in the face, to see physical evidence of conditions that are usually personal and private. Mental illness is a difficult, confounding subject, one many of us would rather ignore. Self-injury draws our attention to something we don't want to see, and perhaps this is why it makes so many people so uncomfortable.

Well, some people's feelings are incomprehensible.

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.

The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye-to-eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

it was always to the steeple that one must return, always it which dominated everything else, summing up the houses with an unexpected pinnacle, raised before me like the Finger of God, Whose Body might have been concealed below among the crowd of human bodies without fear of my confounding It, for that reason, with them.

modo inexplicable, les estábamos comprendiendo.

It was confounding to see magic and beauty and mystery leach out of a thing, to think it could be used up like a store of winter supplies.

Difficult folk, these women!

We can't get our minds around God. I don't think the Christian faith is fundamentally rational, by which I mean it cannot be captured fully by our rational faculties—and in fact, more often than not, confounds them. A God who can be comfortably captured in our minds, with little else for us to find out apart from an occasional adjustment, is no God at all. Expecting faith in God to be rational is often more the problem than the solution.