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233 Incomprehensible quotes by 194 unique authors
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To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation…
— Victor Hugo
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The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.
— Robert South
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Everything that is incomprehensible does not cease to exist.
— Blaise Pascal
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A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a good deal of…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts.
— Leo Tolstoy
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It is incomprehensible that drug companies still get away with charging Americans twice as much, or more, than citizens of Canada or Europe for the…
— Bernie Sanders
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When a man's intellect is constantly with God, his desire grows beyond all measure into an intense longing for God and his incensiveness is completely…
— Maximus the Confessor
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I believe that you always have to believe. It's the only way; after all we both believe that we will do this exhibition. But I…
— Gerhard Richter
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Of course, pictures of objects also have this transcendental side to them. Every object, being part of an ultimately incomprehensible world, also embodies that world;…
— Gerhard Richter
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Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very healthy! We need…
— Roberto Benigni
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Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the…
— Stan Brakhage
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The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies.
— Lawrence Eagleburger
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It reveals to me the causes of many natural phenomena that are entirely incomprehensible in the light of the generally accepted hypotheses. To refute the…
— Galileo Galilei
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It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption [the cross], even though…
— Francis Chan
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Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed not only beauty but also the thoughts of God's world, with an intent…
— Carl Jung
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
— Annie Dillard
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Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into something even more incomprehensible. And then…
— Douglas Adams
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Sometimes people accuse me of being incomprehensible only because they look for an explicative side to my pictures which is not there.
— Paul Gauguin
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Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.
— Gerhard Richter
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It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan…
— Wallace Shawn
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It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible, even…
— Walter J. Phillips
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When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.
— Walter Darby Bannard
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Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf.
— Arnold Palmer
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It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see 'the positive person' or 'the negative person' in…
— Criss Jami
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Egoism , which is the moving force of the world, and altruism , which is its morality , these two contradictory instincts , of which…
— Joseph Conrad
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