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Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the distinction we make… — William Gibson
I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine. — Richard Dawkins
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. — Albert Einstein
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. — Albert Einstein
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. — Eugene Ionesco
After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept… — Daniel Kahneman
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. — John Maynard Keynes
The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty. — Will Self
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of… — Leo Tolstoy
It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust,… — Mark Udall
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death. — Alfred Russel Wallace
The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking. — Robert Anton Wilson
Man depends on God for all things: God depends on man for one. Without man's love God does not exist as God, only as creator,… — Archibald MacLeish
Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what is inexplicable, what… — Philip Pullman
The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly Arthur had a fairly clear idea of what infinity looked like. It wasn’t… — Douglas Adams
The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible… — Leo Tolstoy
It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble. — Starhawk
The yearning to know what cannot be known, to comprehend the incomprehensible, to touch and taste the unapproachable, arises from the image of God in… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him.… — Joseph Conrad
Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more… — Jane Austen
There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse… — Marilynne Robinson
It may be that we exist and cease to exist in alternations, like the minute dots in some forms of toned printing or the succession… — H.G. Wells

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