#incomprehensible

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#beyond #both #bounds #chosen #comes

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#incompetent #incomprehensible #indifferent #into

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

#deeply #deny #despite #documentation #holocaust

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#eternity #i #incomprehensible #life #life and death

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

#creatures #death #divine #except #ignorant

I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#far #grander #i #imagine #incomprehensible

I hadn't accepted he was seriously ill. The idea that someone so close to you couldn't wake up was utterly incomprehensible. Then the doctor came in... Maurice had no brain left. There wasn't any activity at all. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#activity #any #brain #came #close

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#chatter #incomprehensible #language #like #teeth

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#incomprehensible #jargon #profession

The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#dangers #full #implies #incomprehensible #me