Top 18 Quotes About Incomprehensibility
#1. Baby talk has tremendous potential, despite its obvious dangers and its near-total incomprehensibility. The only reason you don't embrace it is your abject terror.
Ben Marcus
#2. Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.
Jerry Saltz
#3. After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
{Said in a letter to Voltaire}
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#4. Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#5. Ascension joy - inwardly we must become very quiet to hear the soft sound of this phrase at all. Joy lives in its quietness and incomprehensibility. This joy is in fact incomprehensible, for the comprehensible never makes for joy.1 Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#6. We should be content with the incomprehensibility of the universe; the desire to understand makes us less than human, for to be human is to know that one does not understand.
Fernando Pessoa
#7. The incomprehensibility of society is the incomprehensibility of the individual. The ocean is not society; it is the individual.
Osamu Dazai
#8. To say God spake or appeared as he is in his own nature, is to deny his Infiniteness, Invisibility, Incomprehensibility.
Thomas Hobbes
#11. The establishment defends itself by complicating everything to the point of incomprehensibility.
Fred Hoyle
#12. What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the saint in a selfish person, life in death, unity in separation,
God in the human and human in God and suffering as the form in which the incomprehensibility of God himself appears.
Brennan Manning
#13. We unlearn the art of speaking well when we cease to speak with God.
John Calvin
#14. Our job in physics is to see things simply, to understand a great many complicated phenomena in a unified way, in terms of a few simple principles.
Steven Weinberg
#15. Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.
Deepak Chopra
#16. Stephen is my boyfriend," Doug said. "We're gay together."
"I'm also gay when we're apart," Stephen added.
Valerie Z. Lewis
#17. My version of 'Georgia' became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching.
Ray Charles
#18. Dialogue launches language, the mind, but once it is launched we develop a new power, "inner speech," and it is this that is indispensable for our further development,
Oliver Sacks
