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These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history. — Nelson Mandela
Those who have a why to live for can bear almost any how. The necessary premise is that a person is somehow more than his… — Saul Bellow
His glory Jesus Christ does not consist in beingplaced without the confines of history; a more real worship is paid to him, by showing that… — Ernest Renan
I moved down the street like a cloud of awareness following a body that seemed simultaneously familiar and foreign. There was an incomprehensible attachment to… — Suzanne Segal
...conversation can be as mutually incomprehensible as foreign languages. We need the different and complementary perspectives of the various yogas - and ideally of all… — Huston Smith
Painting is the making of an analogy for something non-visual and incomprehensible - giving it form and bringing it within reach. And that is why… — Gerhard Richter
Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Man is incomprehensible without Nature and Nature is incomprehensible apart from man. For the delicate loveliness of the flower is as much in the human… — Hamilton Wright Mabie
Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity of number, though… — Saint Augustine
God is not only to be known in His blessed and incomprehensible being, for this is something which is reserved for His saints in the… — John Cassian
Our Lord humbled without humiliation His lofty station which yet could not be humbled, and condescends to His servants, with a condescension ineffable and incomprehensible.… — John of Damascus
In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. — Joseph Conrad
Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is… — Stephen Shore
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the… — Aldous Huxley
The more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become, - that the men at that time were ignorant… — Charles Darwin
Men may believe what they cannot prove. They may not be put to the proof of their religious doctrines or beliefs. Religious experiences which are… — William O. Douglas
The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand… — Queen Victoria
The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend. — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
Thats the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous. — Galway Kinnell
When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence. — P.J. O'Rourke
You look back in time to when there was slavery and you think 'how did people even remotely believe that this was a good idea?'.It's… — Stefan Molyneux
The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure… — John Ruskin
What frightened me was the logic of the world; in it lay the foretaste of something incalculably powerful. Its mechanism was incomprehensible, and I could… — Osamu Dazai
All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God… — Jacques Ellul
I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft… — Poppy Z. Brite

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