Beyond Comprehension Quotes

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

The best things cannot be told because they transcend thought. The second best are misunderstood because they are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which cannot be thought about. The third best are what we talk about.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Some things were beyond understanding.

The simplest science book is over my head.

Infinity is almost impossible for an eight-year-old to grasp. It's an inquiring age, and you're beginning to shape your thoughts and questions about life in general at that stage.

You are the sky. Everything else - it’s just the weather.

My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.

Those who have a why to live for can bear almost any how. The necessary premise is that a person is somehow more than his or her "characteristics," all the emotions, strivings, tastes, and constructions which it pleases us to call "My Life." We have grounds to hope that a Life is something more than a cloud of particles, mere facticity. Go through what is comprehensible and you conclude that only the incomprehensible gives any light.

I can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can't ever find out. You can't find out in one life either.

No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

Some things are too terrible to be true.

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

Unbelievable, yet, what else could it be?

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.

When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

A mystery is not a puzzle waiting to be solved, but rather something for which there is no human solution. Mystery's offspring is not frustration but awe, and that sense of awe grows in tandem with knowledge.

The real universe is always one step beyond logic.

My life's been surreal from start to finish.

It was one of those things that had to be experienced to be understood

Though it may be called a nescience, and unknowing, yet there is in it more than all knowing and understanding without it; for this unknowing lures and attracts you from all understood things, and from yourself as well.

Unimaginable perhaps; but the unimaginable is there to be imagined.