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«That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous»
«To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts.»
Author: Ivars Peterson
| About:
Mathematics
| Keywords:
borders, concepts, dense, denser, Equations, incomprehensible, indecipherable, landscapes, outsider, outsiders, protected, technical, territory, thicket, thickets
«The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer»
«The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always in flux, and incomprehensible. Serving this urge, the child quite generally uses a scheme in order to act and to fin»
Author: Alfred Adler
| About:
Mankind,
Mind
| Keywords:
assumptions, capture, chaotic, fictions, fin, fins, flux, incomprehensible, scheme, serving, unreal, urge
«TRINITY, n. In the multiplex theism of certain Christian churches, three entirely distinct deities consistent with only one. Subordinate deities of the polytheistic faith, such as devils and angels, are not dowered with the power of combination, and must urge individually their clames to adoration and propitiation. The Trinity is one of the most sublime mysteries of our holy religion. In rejecting it because it is incomprehensible, Unitarians betray their inadequate sense of theological fundamentals. In religion we believe only what we do not understand, except in the instance of an intelligible doctrine that contradicts an incomprehensible one. In that case we believe the former as a part of the latter.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
adoration, betray, Christian Churches, Christian faith, churches, combination, consistent, contradicts, deities, devils, distinct, dower, dowered, former, fundamentals, Holy Trinity, inadequate, incomprehensible, individually, instance, intelligible, latter, multiplex, mysteries, polytheistic, propitiation, Rejecting, sublime, subordinate, subordinated, subordinates, subordinating, theism, theological, three parts, trinity, urge
«The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
about, all, at all, comprehensible, incomprehensible, most, the world, thing, world
«The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Understanding,
World
| Keywords:
comprehensible, incomprehensible
«That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
God,
Power
| Keywords:
conviction, emotional, forms, incomprehensible, presence, presence of God, reasoning, revealed, superior
«Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, and the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Church
| Keywords:
incomprehensible, miraculous, supernatural, supernatural being, The Church, unknowable, unreasonable, vacuum
«There are things which we feel to be good and true, though in the cold light of reason and calculation many things remain incomprehensible and dark. And though the society in which we live considers such actions thoughtless, or reckless, or I don't k»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| About:
Feelings,
Thinking
| Keywords:
calculation, considers, incomprehensible, reckless, thoughtless
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