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«Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable»
Author: Gore Vidal | About: Religion | Keywords: aspects, explain, inexplicable, make sense, religions, senseless, sprang, terrifying
«He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.»
Author: Jack Kroll | About: Art, Language, Nature | Keywords: boundaries, inexplicable, leaps, nervous, startle, startled, systems, transmits
«Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it»
Author: Max Jacob (Poet) | About: Friendship | Keywords: explained, inexplicable
«The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken (Critic, Journalist) | About: Fear | Keywords: complex, emotion, inexplicable, inferior, permanent, safety, unknown
«In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.»
Author: John Steinbeck (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: inexplicable, tries, utter
«Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don't happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data and yet we don't understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence.»
Author: Simone Weil (Activist, Mystic, Philosopher) | Keywords: come back, contemplation, data, experiment, Human Relations, impenetrable, inexplicable, in relation to, opacity, relation, relation to, wretchedness
«The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer (Philosopher) | Keywords: fundament, fundaments, inexplicable, rests
«It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate its tremendous branches filled with stars. We have a duty to perform, to work upon the human soul, to defend the mystery against the miracle, to worship the incomprehensible while rejecting the absurd; to accept, in the inexplicable, only what is necessary; to dispel the superstitions that surround religion --to rid God of His Maggots.»
Author: Victor Hugo (Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: absurd, branches, contemplate, defend, dispel, dispelling, human soul, incomprehensible, inexplicable, perform, prostrate, prostrated, prostrates, prostrating, Rejecting, rid, superstitions, surround, The Miracle, tree branch, tremendous, worship
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