Quotes About Ineffable

Our reasoning brain is weak, and our tongue is weaker still", remarks St Basil the Great. "It is easier to measure the entire sea with a tiny cup than to grasp God's ineffable greatness with the human mind."10

It is easier to measure the entire sea with a tiny cup than to grasp God's ineffable greatness with the human mind."10 But,

It is easier to measure the entire sea with a tiny cup than to grasp God's ineffable greatness with the human mind.

When they're older, maybe my grandchildren will embrace apophatic theology, the theology of not knowing. Maybe they will look for ways to make the irrational rational by hiding behind words like "mystery" in order to sustain their faith. Apophatic theology teaches that the divine is ineffable and recognized only when it's felt.

No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words

Wonderfullest things are ever the unmentionable; deep memories yield no epitaphs

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

But how? Genius in the Sperm Whale? Has the Sperm Whale ever written a book, spoken a speech? No, his great genius is declared in his doing nothing particular to prove it. It is moreover declared in his pyramidical silence. (Moby Dick Chapter lxxix p345)

English may be the fastest moving language in the world, but there are plenty of concepts, sensations and everyday occurrences which lack a pithy word to describe them. Take the clunkiness of 'the day before yesterday' and 'the day after tomorrow': German provides single words for both.

The truth of the world is like Air, which is there but unexplainable.

When God gave men tongues, he never dreamed that they would want to talk about the Himalayas; there are consequently no words in the world to do it with.

It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence.

Si on me presse de dire pourquoi je l'aimais, je sens que cela ne se peut exprimer, qu'en répondant: « Parce que c'était lui; parce que c'était moi. »

If someone presses me to say why I loved him, I feel that I cannot express it other than by answering, 'Because it was he, because it was I.

El que puede decir cómo es su ardor, arde con un fuego pequeño.

o essencial no romance é aquilo que não pode ser dito senão por um romance, em toda adaptação só fica o que não é essencial

Litost, baÅŸka dillere çevrilmesi olanaks?z çekçe bir sözcüktür. Adamak?ll? aç?lm?? bir akordeon gibi sonsuz bir duyguyu, baÅŸka birçok duygular?n bileÅŸimi olan bir duyguyu anlat?r: hüzün, ac?ma, piÅŸmanl?k ve özlem. SözcüÄŸün ilk hecesi, terk edilmiÅŸ bir köpeÄŸin s?zlanmas?n? duyuracak biçimde uzun ve güçlü bir biçimde vurgulan?r.

Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in which all exhibition of itself is painful.

I don't think I can get anywhere near to fully describing what love is.

I fell in love with the place! You know, the people, the bourbon, the music... it's in the air. It's something you can't describe on camera.

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.""Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself

Once again Chile reduces us to what R. L. Stevenson called 'the virginity of senses' where words cannot match the impressions received.

En lugar de reconocer que somos ignorantes en muchas áreas, hemos tendido a decir cosas como que el universo está impregnado de lo inefable. Se asigna la responsabilidad de lo que todavía no entendemos a un Dios de lo ignorado.

Oh, no se puede describir al que se ama