Quotes About Incomprehensible

Well, I did go. To Auschwitz. And the warning was correct. Not because I was not permitted to describe what I had seen, but because I could not describe what I had seen. The piles of glasses. The piles of shoes. The piles of bones. The piles of human hair. I thought that I had never seen the kind of thinking that did this, that I had never seen this kind of reality. Not in movies, not in theater. Yet it was real.

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

Miller is overrated. Ninety percent of his writing is incomprehensible, and incantation of the word cunt does not make you a sexual liberator.

What most puzzled Rome about the Jews was not their unfamiliar rites or their strict devotion to their laws, but rather what the Romans considered to be their unfathomable sense of superiority. The notion that an insignificant Semitic tribe residing in a distant corner of the mighty Roman Empire demanded, and indeed received, special treatment from the emperor was, for many Romans, simply incomprehensible.

His mode of speaking was largely incomprehensible, his tone was portentous, which is perhaps why he inevitably spoke in capital letters. Words existed in his speech as currants in a badly made bread-and-butter pudding - clusters of stodgy darkness

Colin decided then and there that the female mind was a strange and incomprehensible organ - one which no man should even attempt to understand. There wasn't a woman alive who could go from point A to B without stopping at C, D, X, and 12 along the way.

Something whose connection with human experience we cannot grasp is bound to be frightening.

La consciencia de mis capacidades literarias es, a última hora del día y por la mañana, inabarcable.

I bet you were a Boy Scout. You are incomprehensible. It's just a compliment.

O, dread and dire word. Eternity! What mind of man can understand it?

No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa.

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!

Trying to describe my life and feelings to you is like trying to describe coulours to the blind, or music to the deaf. It's simply not possible.

God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.

To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, its only because we havent been able to understand it yet.

When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incomprehensible, I cannot acquiesce in the authority of a Schoolman.

It was extremely difficult to keep up any pace over the rocks since they were so unpredictable and devoid of reason. Their senselessness had never so much impressed me.

I knew from experience that no matter how much you turn things in your head, trying to make sense of them, some people just defy all logic.

You can't explain the unknown in terms of the incomprehensible.

Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very healthy! We need it!

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.

There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.