Inscrutable Quotes

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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks… — A. S. Byatt
And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason. No powder on… — Arthur Conan Doyle
It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled. — Sun Tzu
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure… — Louise Bogan
Cats must have three names-an everyday name, such as Peter; a more particular, dignified name, such as Quaxo, Bombalurina, or Jellylorum; and, thirdly, the name… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect… — Samuel Johnson
Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable Power. We know not its… — Thomas Aquinas
In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a… — Marcus Aurelius
The brain seems to be made up of a bewildering complexity of parts, and the cells within the parts seem to be characterized by an… — Gordon Shepherd
Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the world, and everything… — David Berlinski
Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what… — Immanuel Kant
These warriors of the Sacred Band were inscrutable; they loved their war and death and picking through the bones of time to sort out right… — Janet Morris
When over long periods of human history I scrutinized the activity of the Jewish people, suddenly there arose up in me the fearful question whether… — Adolf Hitler
One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign… — Joseph Conrad
But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable. — E. M. Forster
Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means to any ends… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The dual substance of Christ- the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God... has always been a deep inscrutable mystery to me.… — Nikos Kazantzakis
One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity. — Charles Brenton Huggins
Participation in the dance was entirely voluntary, a mental vow to worship the Mystery in this manner being expressed by a man ardently desiring the… — Edward S. Curtis

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