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Quotes About Incomprehensible

My religiosity consists of a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
~ Albert Einstein
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
~ Albert Einstein
May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!
~ Albert Einstein
Nature, or anything that reminds me of nature, disturbs me; it is too large, too complicated, above all too utterly pointless and incomprehensible.
~ Aldous Huxley
there's a sense of incomprehensible apocalypse in the air—we all feel it—and there's a rumor going around: the barbarians are coming.
~ Alessandro Baricco
La notte fuori era illeggibile.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Oh, certainly, death, sudden and violent, was a good way to foil his implacable enemies, who seemed to be pursuing him with some incomprehensible desire for vengeance. Yes, but that meant dying!
~ Alexandre Dumas
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
~ Douglas Adams
But we also can't fathom how an egg cell can fabricate a baby.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Really crazy stuff. I think they call it abstract math. What he created was usually beyond me, even conceptually.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.
~ Douglas Noel Adams
The value of life itself cannot be estimated.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Human life is beyond comprehension.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
The gargantuan, ever-growing, ever-less-accountable, impossible-to-uproot federal bureaucracy is actually the sleeper issue of our time. It's at the heart of the conservative critique of modern government: faceless bureaucrats writing incomprehensible regulations that complicate our lives for no good reason.
~ Jim Geraghty
Hardest of all were those problems about people doing incomprehensible things with no motivation. I was inclined to drift away from the sum to wonder why people would care what time two trains passed each other (spies), be so picky about seating arrangements (recently divorced people), or - which to this day remains incomprehensible - run the bath with no plug in.
~ Jo Walton
O senhor por ora mal me entende, se é que no fim me entenderá. Mas a vida não é entendível.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
I am warned of evils that await me," continued Vivaldi, musing; "of events that are regularly fulfilled; the being who warns me, crosses my path perpetually, yet, with the cunning of a demon, as constantly eludes my grasp, and baffles my pursuit! It is incomprehensible, by what means he glides thus away from my eye, and fades, as if into air, at my approach! He is repeatedly in my presence, yet is never to be found!
~ Ann Radcliffe
That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
~ Galway Kinnell
Incomprehensible messaging is a very important part of Russian propaganda.
~ Masha Gessen
Because the Second Amendment is an incomprehensible mess, because too many lobbyists have argued that it is an absolute protection of actions and items never considered at the time of our nation's founding, and because there is a clear state interest in protecting the lives of its citizens, the words must be removed from the Constitution.
~ Kurt Eichenwald
She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one- the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
In other words, the new understanding imparted by the Bible comes from a source lying beyond our ability to frame questions.
~ Fleming Rutledge
I have always just experimented, and I come from a very ancient, acoustic root. It was very hard to put a finger on me.
~ Donovan