The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Only when I saw the Earth from space, in all its ineffable beauty and fragility, did I realize that humankind's most urgent… — Sigmund Jahn Copy Share Image
Music, not being made up of objects nor referring to objects, is intangible and ineffable; it can only be as it were… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality. — Toyo Ito Copy Share Image
Even the best computer in the world has no idea that it exists. You do. No one knows what creates that ineffable… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Every mile was redolent of associations, which she would not have missed for the world, but each of which made her cry… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Prayer has a right to the word "ineffable." It is an hour of outpourings which words cannot express,--of that interior speech which… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
There is an ineffable but fatal difference in attitude between people behaving naturally and people behaving naturally for a camera. — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
The brilliant Schiller was wrong in his Joan of Arc when he said against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. It… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees,… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Studying the universe engages us in something bigger than ourselves. Science tries to describe, in terms we can only grasp intuitively, things… — Guy Consolmagno Copy Share Image
Neither God nor Being nor any other word can define or explain the ineffable reality behind the word, so the only important… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb. Ineffable socialities are in me. I would sit down and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal… — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
We cannot look upon our lives as dreams of a dreamer who has no awakening in all time. We have a personality… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Both light and shadow are the dance of Love. Love has no cause, it is the astrolabe of God's secrets. Lover and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe in one secret and ineffable Lord; and in one Star in the Company of Stars of whose fire we are… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
There is sadness of when you're watching someone enjoy something that you think is substandard. The ineffable sadness when someone is happy… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
The mystics always say that the experience they're talking about is ineffable, that you can't say it. Rumi was asked one time… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
In the way that I experience life, the physical world is really just the tip of the iceberg of reality. Whether it's… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“Every thing that purports to be the truth is, according to Heidegger, inevitably an approximation and true things, things that really are,… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
Copying is an art in itself, demanding the greatest technical ability, especially in watercolour. However well done, the copy invariably lacks that… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Early love is exciting and exhilarating. It's light and bubbly. Anyone can love like that. But after three children, after a separation… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
Like so many pilgrims before us, we kneel in wonder and adoration before the ineffable mystery which. was accomplished here... In This… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
The Light of the Lord's Transfiguration does not come into being or cease to be, nor is it circumscribed or perceptible to… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The man who is unable to people his solitude is equally unable to be alone in a bustling crowd. The poet enjoys… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
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