Incomprehensibility Quotes

“After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?

{Said in a letter to Voltaire}”
― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“Irrationality. I found the thought faintly pleasurable. Or rather, I feel at ease with it. What frightened me was the logic of the world; in it lay the foretaste of something incalculably powerful. Its mechanism was incomprehensible, and I could not possibly remain closeted in that windowless, bone-chilling room. Though outside lay the sea of irrationality, it was far more agreeable to swim in its water until presently, I drowned.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“We unlearn the art of speaking well when we cease to speak with God.”
― John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian religion Volume v.1

“Exoticism is the acute and immediate perception of an eternal incomprehensibility.
What triumphs, then, is not the rule of difference and lack of differentiation but instead an eternal incomprehensibility, the irreducible foreignness of cultures, manners, faces, languages.
If savour increases as a function of difference, what could be more savoury than the antagonism of irreducibles, the clash of eternal contrasts?
The irredeemability of the object: 'The essential exoticism is that which the Object has for the Subject.' Exoticism as the fundamental law of the intensity of sensations, of the exaltation of the senses, and thus of living itself ...”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena

“Vern stowed away the titles of books like morsels she might snack on later. She liked being reminded of the incomprehensibleness of the world. There was more to life than Cainland, more to earth than its collected sorrows. There was wonder and awe and the allure of nothingness. No one had figured everything out, but there were people who'd made their home in the searching. If they could dwell there, so could Vern.”
― Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland