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The world is full of incomprehensible words
Impossibility is a dictionary word.
The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.
I am visible and immutable - carefully hidden behind a secret, secret. I
Sufficiently simple natural structures are predictable but uncontrollable, whereas sufficiently complex symbolic descriptions are controllable but unpredictable.
Unrivalled not only in its class, but in a class by itself.
Nothing is unfixable, except the fact that you're gone
Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
There is an explicit way to define what explicit is.
Imperturbability means coolness and presence of mind under all circumstances, calmness amid storm, clearness of judgment in moments of grave peril, immobility, impassiveness, or, to use an old and expressive word, phlegm.
It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object.
There is a thin line between the impossible and the possible - that is determination.
[T]o a limited being its limited understanding is not felt to be a limitation; on the contrary, it is perfectly happy and contented with this understanding[.]
An external thing that is knowable [is knowable] by means of something internal that is consubstantial [with the rational soul].
Cut the "im" out of impossible, leading that dynamic word standing out free and clear-possible.
Any definition which limits us is deplorable.
My power is immeasurable; My truth inexplicable, unfathomable.
All that is active, all that is enveloped in time and space, is endowed with what might be described as an abstract, ideal and absolute impermeability.
Adorkable is a freeform, loose-knit, organic network of like-minded souls who might get pushed to the ground for the way we think and the way we look and because we're not afraid of who we are, but my God we're looking up at the stars.
The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level, indefensible.
Everything is strange, complex and complicated, but this are the features which make it incrediable.
Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
To define something is to subordinate it to a tangle of intellectual relationships. And when you do that you destroy real understanding.
You cannot be named. To define is to confine.
[...] provability is a weaker notion than truth
Our understanding is a faculty of concepts, i.e., a discursive understanding, for which it must of course be contingent what and how different might be the particular that can be given to it in nature and brought under its concepts.
Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely
Impossible is in the dictionary of fools
There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.
There are things that are not sayable. That's why we have words.
What is thinkable is also possible.
uncomputable numbers
Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.
To maintain a constant relationship with God is to be discernable
an exception: in the sentence I asked him what he thought of my review in his book, and his response was unprintable, the word unprintable means something much more specific than "incapable of being printed.") The
One can only define the unknown by its supposed and supposable relations with the known.
A great many years ago I purchased a fine dictionary. The first thing I did with it was to turn to the word "impossible," and neatly clip it out of the book. That would not be an unwise thing for you to do.
The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit, hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science.
How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to be the value of a variable"; this formula serves rather, conversely, in testing the conformity of a given remark or doctrine to a prior ontological standard.
Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable: this last is the possibility of literature.
It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach.
You need, instead, to be defined by your values.
Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can't reason without them.
...[F]reedom... is a property of all rational beings.
It is the metaphysically given that must be accepted: it cannot be changed. It is the man-made that must never be accepted uncritically: it must be judged, then accepted or rejected and changed when necessary.
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
Every specific human being, however, thinks, judges, imagines, wills and expresses himself or herself in a unique, dissimilar, and unrepeatable mode
a mode of unpredictable difference, or otherness, which objectively defies description or delimitation.
Words alone were ambiguous, unreliable. But what could be reliable, if not words
What is a good definition? For the philosopher or the scientist, it is a definition which applies to all the objects to be defined, and applies only to them; it is that which satisfies the rules of logic. But in education it is not that; it is one that can be understood by the pupils.
While we pursue the unattainable, we make impossible the realizable.
Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own.
Impossible is a word found only in the dictionary for fools.
It is not my intention to make anything comprehensible. I am of the opinion that there are sufficient paintings which one understands after a shorter or longer delay, and that therefore some incomprehensible painting would now be welcome. I am at pains to deliver such, as far as possible.
It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence.
In absolute incommunicableness it stood apart, a thought, a system of thought which as yet had no symbol in spoken language
We, the garden of technology. We, undecidable.
Explanation of the unspeakable cannot be finished.
We want to do something and a definition is a means of doing it. If we want certain results then we must use certain meanings or definitions. But no definition has any authority apart from a purpose, or to bar us from other purposes.
Well, let us say inexplicable. There is no point in using the word "impossible" to describe something that has clearly happened. But it cannot be explained by anything we know.
I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface
There is no reason to believe that a definition necessarily determines the ontological status of the term defined.)
The events of life are unrepeatable.
Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows.
Something that cannot be explained cannot be seen.
This
is another to be added to the many proofs that verisimilitude is not
in the least an essential element of verity.
The simplest, most indefinable quality had too much content, in relation to itself, in its heart.
One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at the same time defining its terms.
I never wish to be easily defined. I'd rather float over other people's minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
For to define is to isolate, to separate some complex of forms from the stream of life and say, "This is I." When man can name and define himself, he feels that he has an identity. Thus he begins to feel, like the word, separate and static, as over against the real, fluid world of nature.
Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real.
That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.'
Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of language is philosophy's main source of problems. That is why it is of the utmost importance to examine attentively the very words we use.
The meaning that i am trying to render through my work is a verification of how it is still possible to desire and face a path of knowledge, to be able finally to distinguish the precise identity of man, things, life, from the image of man, things and life.
All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.
We come to think of an idealist as one who seeks to realize what is not in fact realizable. But, it is necessary to insist, to have ideals is not the same as to have impracticable ideals, however often it may be the case that our ideals are impracticable.
I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them.
I never wish to be easily defined.
We can only understand what we can name.
God, understood in this proper sense, is essentially beyond finite comprehension;
We must categorize and simplify in order to comprehend. But the reduction of complexity entails a great danger, since the line between enlightening epitome and vulgarized distortion is so fine.
Ultimate Reality, if such an entity can be postulated, is ineffable.
We can't define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into the paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers ... one saying to the other: you don't know what you are talking about! The second one says: what do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you? What do you mean by know?
One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
Everything is inconceivable. The whole world is inconceivable to the strict logic of ideas. And yet the world exists to our senses, and we exist in it. There must be a necessity superior to our conceptions.
A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all.
I will not impress you with words, I will prove to you their definition. It's a genuine vocabulary.
Impeccability of the word can lead you to personal freedom, to huge success and abundance; it can take away all fear and transform it into joy and love.
Intelligibility or precision: to combine the two is impossible.
Prayer has a right to the word "ineffable." It is an hour of outpourings which words cannot express,
of that interior speech which we do not articulate, even when we employ it.
PUBLISHER'S NOTE To seize the knowledge of the UNKNOWABLE needs a language, which is at once symbolically creative, revealingly poetic, infinitely plastic, luminously rhythmic, automatic perception of right relations and their inevitable descent of truth of idea, word and action.
Express only that which cannot be expressed. Leave it unexpressed)
Can life be defined? Well, how would you go about it? Well, of course, you'd go to Encyclopedia Britannica and open at L. No, of course you don't do that; you put it somewhere in Google. And then you might get something.
There are some things which are known only to oneself and one's maker. These are clearly incommunicable.
The untranslatable thought must be the most precise.
When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.
Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare.
Definitions ... are never really needed, and rarely of any use
Docility is the observable half of reason.
Good, then, is indefinable....