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Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession. -- Kingman Brewster, Jr.
O Beginningless, Immortal, Timeless, Incomprehensible and Unimaginable Lord, the God of all and Creator of all creation, the Foreseer and Savior of all, as I have hoped in You, I thank You, that You have brought me to this hour, as I approach the crown of Your righteousness. -- Marina of Aguas Santas
When love has carried us above all things into the Divine Dark, there we are transformed by the Eternal Word Who is the image of the Father; and as the air is penetrated by the sun, thus we receive in peace the Incomprehensible Light, enfolding us, and penetrating us. -- John of Ruysbroeck
The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible. -- Malcolm Wallop
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. -- John Maynard Keynes
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. -- Antonin Artaud
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
I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine. -- Richard Dawkins
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen
Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking. -- Robert Anton Wilson
To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face. -- Tim Wise
It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word. -- Kevin Kline
I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring. -- Bjarke Ingels
That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous. -- Galway Kinnell
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
I think the biggest challenge for Somalia has been the sense that it is a hopeless case of incomprehensible internal conflicts and there is nothing we can do. -- Jan Egeland
All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature. -- Rudolf Steiner
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal. -- Jorge Luis Borges
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 the world is incomprehensible much of the time. -- Daniel Kahneman
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, there are still those who would deny it. -- Mark Udall
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 exact same drugs manufactured by the exact same companies. -- Bernie Sanders
The reality, I believe, is that all change starts small. The big picture is just too unwieldy, too incomprehensible and seemingly immovable. But give us something individual, quantifiable and personalize-able and, suddenly, our perspective shifts to the one. -- Mick Ebeling
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 food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it. -- Leo Tolstoy
A novel can grant humanity even to those who act inhumanely, and by making men and women of monsters, it can offer not only a ground-level view of a particular conflict, but a descent into the substratum of human nature capable of the incomprehensible. -- Anthony Marra
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 between what we call the real world and what they think of as simply the world as the quaintest and most incomprehensible thing about us. -- William Gibson
Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse. -- Karen Armstrong
Males are the most incomprehensible species. -- Rachel Cohn
All history is incomprehensible without Christ. -- Ernest Renan
Bring something incomprehensible into the world! -- Gilles Deleuze
my wild, uncured, erratic, incomprehensible heart. -- Lauren Oliver
Everything that is not me is incomprehensible. -- Louis Aragon
Only wonder can comprehend His incomprehensible power. -- Maximus the Confessor
The ways of Wayne are mysterious and incomprehensible. -- Brandon Sanderson
The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend. -- Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real. -- Blaise Pascal
Everything that is incomprehensible does not cease to exist. -- Blaise Pascal
When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is. -- Walter Darby Bannard
You can't explain the unknown in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Theodore Schick
You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely -- Max Frisch
An inexplicable fact is infinitely preferable to an incomprehensible mystery. -- Frederick Soddy
Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five. -- Zelda Fitzgerald
The senses are our bridge between the incomprehensible and the comprehensible. -- August Macke
The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me. -- Oscar Wilde
The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises . -- Jorge Amado
There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences. -- Clarice Lispector
The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest. -- Annie Dillard
The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness. -- Paul Valery
Between incomprehensible and incoherent sits the madhouse. I am not in the madhouse. -- Jack Kerouac
There could be something incredibly grand and incomprehensible and beyond our present understanding. -- Richard Dawkins
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. -- Robert South
The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer. -- Vance Packard
Look deeply at yourself, and see in yourself the divine architect's incomprehensible art! -- Bryant McGill
What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life. -- William Klein
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible. -- Igor Stravinsky
God is our Father and loves us, even when his silence remains incomprehensible. -- Pope Benedict XVI
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. -- Albert Einstein
He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable. -- Joseph Conrad
The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible. -- Henry Rollins
Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself. -- Jacques Maritain
Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life. -- Jean Giraudoux
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf, Sr.
Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible. -- Oswald Spengler
This incomprehensible war would take from him even the humanity to find it incomprehensible. -- Anthony Marra
Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true. -- Franz Kafka
There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see. -- Agnes Repplier
Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others. -- William O. Douglas
It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist. -- Blaise Pascal
Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf. -- Arnold Palmer
Love is unconditional and incomprehensible. And I believe it's possible to love absent of mutual respect. -- Sufjan Stevens
In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble. -- Starhawk
Dogs will eat till they die. Cats will leave food in the dish, incomprehensible to a dog. -- Tim Allen
If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem rational never to think of Him at all. -- Jean Meslier
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death. -- Alfred Russel Wallace
I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts. -- Leo Tolstoy
In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. -- Joseph Conrad
God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits. -- George Berkeley
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In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible. -- Martin Luther
A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us. -- G. I. Gurdjieff
There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible. -- Alec Douglas-Home
I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible. -- Constantin Brancusi
Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood. -- Oscar Wilde
It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth. -- Faina Ranevskaya
Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings. -- Gerhard Richter
Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood. -- Karl Kraus
When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable. -- D. H. Lawrence
I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters. -- Jack Vance
The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage! -- Jane Austen
Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration. -- Niklaus Wirth
A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker. -- Jose Raul Capablanca
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These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history. -- Nelson Mandela
The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies. -- Lawrence Eagleburger
God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out. -- Richard Flanagan
We cannot begin to define God's knowledge. We know, simply and profoundly, that nothing is hidden from Him or incomprehensible to Him. -- Elizabeth George
Sometimes people accuse me of being incomprehensible only because they look for an explicative side to my pictures which is not there. -- Paul Gauguin
God is not more incomprehensible than you; but if he is not more just, it is hardly worth while beIieving in him. -- Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand
There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of hernia. -- Dave Barry
Thats the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous. -- Galway Kinnell
The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own. -- Parker J. Palmer
To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, its only because we havent been able to understand it yet. -- Richard Matheson
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love. -- Peter Kreeft
I wasn't sure if the word boys should mean dim or incomprehensible. I was hovering between the two, with a healthy dose of testosterone-poisoned. -- Lilith Saintcrow
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
Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
It's daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible. -- Frances Mayes
Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge. -- Clarence Darrow
I remember as a child, my grandmother read to me Silent Spring. It was incomprehensible to me that there could be a world without birdsong. -- Terry Tempest Williams
Experience arises together with theoretical assumptions not before them, and an experience without theory is just as incomprehensible as is (allegedly) a theory without experience. -- Paul Feyerabend
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
Places: a cold, bleak, lonely day on the rim at Muley Point, Utah. And the heart-cracking loveliness of the blood-smeared, bitter, incomprehensible slaughterhouse of a world.... -- Edward Abbey
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 it! -- Roberto Benigni

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