I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable…

There is no life in thee, now, except that rocking life imparted by a gently rolling ship; by her, borrowed from the sea; by…

— Herman Melville

The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to…

— Immanuel Kant

Cruel, but composed and bland, Dumb, inscrutable and grand, So Tiberius might have sat, Had Tiberius been a cat.

— Matthew Arnold

These warriors of the Sacred Band were inscrutable; they loved their war and death and picking through the bones of time to sort out…

— Janet Morris

Jesus will turn your sorrow into joy. One can only imagine the shock and bewilderment the Apostles felt when the Lord told them he…

— Patrick Madrid

When over long periods of human history I scrutinized the activity of the Jewish people, suddenly there arose up in me the fearful question…

— Adolf Hitler

So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The easiest way to be inscrutable is to be completely straightforward and honest. Then no one will be able to figure out what you’re…

— George Hammond

The ways of Providence being inscrutable, and the justice of it not to be scanned by the shallow eye of humanity, nor to be…

— George Washington

Before exulatation had vanished, I felt as if I had been granted a marvellous privilege. Out of the inscrutable waters a beautiful fish had…

— Zane Grey

We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God.

— Thomas Carlyle

Colour, as the strange and magnificent expression of the inscrutable spectrum of Eternity, is beautiful and important to me as a painter; I use…

— Max Beckmann

Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means to any…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about…

— Orson Welles

I don’t know where the universe came from or what happens to creatures when they die. I don’t know if the whole thing’s an…

— Glen Duncan