What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
Quotes about incommunicable (10 Quotes)
Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. Vitality never ''takes.'' You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice.
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
The burden of the incommunicable.
The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.
I distrust the incommunicable it is the source of all violence.
Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God, our conscience, and ourselves. Tears, grieves, depressions, disappointments, irritations, good and evil thoughts, decisions, uncertainties, deliberations --all these belong to our secret, and are almost all incommunicable and intransmissible, even when we try to speak of them, and even when we write them down.
What a man knows at 50 that he did not know at 20 is, for the most part, incommunicable. The knowledge he has acquired with age is not the knowledge of formulas, or forms of words, but of people, places, actions a knowledge gained not by words but by touch, sight, sound, victories, failures, sleeplessness, devotion, love the human experiences and emotions of this earth and of oneself and other men and perhaps, too, a little faith, a little reverence for things one cannot see.
There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.