Quotes of Inexplicable - somelinesforyou

“ The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear — fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his body? ”

- Thomas Hardy

“ Every piece of writing… starts from what I call a grit… a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away… but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind. ”

- Rumer Godden

“ There are only two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible. ”

- Alexander Douglas Home

“ He was a very experienced man, and for some inexplicable reason, he walked out in front of one of those rollers. We're stunned. ”

- John Hurt

“ In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ Japan's inexplicable lack of response to even consider a move to re-open their market to U.S. beef will sorely tempt economic trade action against Japan. ”

- Saxby Chambliss

“ 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. ”

- Victor Hugo
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