Inexplicable Quotes
134 quotes by 121 authors
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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly…
— Douglas Adams
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Meditation is like giving a hug to our ourselves, getting in touch whith that awesome reality in us. While meditating we feel a deep sense…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean of the inexplicable.…
— Thomas Huxley
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Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.
— C.S. Lewis
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The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous enough, and his description of…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which…
— Joseph de Maistre
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Nature, you say, is totally inexplicable without a God. That is to say, to explain what you understand very little, you have need of a…
— Baron d'Holbach
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Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
— Max Jacob
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We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy of the philosopher…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.
— Albert Einstein
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As an artist, there's a sweet, jump-starting quality to [marijuana] for me. I've often felt telepathic and receptive to inexplicable messages my whole life. I…
— Alanis Morissette
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Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable…
— Simone Weil
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There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.
— Octave Mirbeau
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For something to hurt that bad, and feel so good, it's just inexplicable.
— Adam Goucher
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I definitely believe that you are drawn to certain things for inexplicable reasons, but in a very powerful way. I don't know what it is…
— Rachel McAdams
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He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new…
— Jack Kroll
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There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.
— Victor Hugo
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I have yet to meet the famous Rational Economic Man theorists describe. Real people have always done inexplicable things from time to time, and they…
— Charles S. Sanford, Jr.
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Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility written down. I've…
— Chris Kraus
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