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Quotes About Incommensurable

The power of thought, of idea, is incommensurable, is immeasurable. The world is dominated by thought.
~ Émile Coué
The ground-root folly of this piteous philanthropy is thinking to distribute indivisibles, and make equality in things incommensurable: forged under such delusions, all Utopias are castles in the air or counsels of despair.
~ Robert Bridges
APOTOME  (APO'TOME)   n.s.[from    to cut off.]1.In mathematicks,the remainder or difference of two incommensurable quantities.2.In musick
~ Samuel Johnson
The finite and the infinite are "incommensurable" (not related even by proper analogy); there is no proportion between them. Precision, or clarity, or exactness, is simply impossible here. All distinctions between
~ Peter Kreeft