Beings we can hardly imagine or understand.

All her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value.

— Georges Bernanos

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes…

— Jules Verne

“We live among mysteries. Love is one, there are others. We must not imagine we understand all there is to know about the world.”

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“ 'All we can see is the surface. But there's so much more we can't see beneath. I bet it's as big as the…

— Augusta Li

One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.

— Henry David Thoreau

But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.

— Marcel Proust

We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or understand or explore.

— Ellen Gilchrist

“The only way we can come to understand other beings is by tainting them with a bit of ourselves. When we are all covered…

— Karin Altenberg

I don't like my parents; I never will. I didn't cry at either of their funerals. I haven't missed them for five seconds. I…

— David Small

All the different classes of beings which taken together make up the universe are, in the ideas of God who knows distinctly their essential…

— Gottfried Leibniz

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

— Marilynne Robinson

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated…

— Hanns Eisler

“Is there any holy beings like human beings?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this…

— Emily Browning

Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are…

— Tim Wise