The truth of an artwork is not its simple manifestation of meaning but rather the unfathomableness and depth of its meaning (PH 226). ❋ Davey, Nicholas (2007)
The sea's unfathomableness would be an example of extended immensity in nature; uniform repetition of temporal intervals in music would be an example of an attempt to represent the experience of an extended immensity in art. ❋ Dahlstrom, Daniel (2006)
[528] _Altitudo animi_, the unfathomableness of a man's character and designs -- a character which shows nothing outwardly of what is going on within. ❋ 86 BC-34? BC Sallust (N/A)
As to her disposition, there is that queer unfathomableness which puzzles us, and we must admit we are unable to tell whether she is dreaming of harmony or mentally designing her next frock. ❋ No Author (1921)
The merely logical conception of unity is misleading because the wavering mass of impression which makes up our life has a margin which recedes on every side into unfathomableness. ❋ John Cowper Powys (1917)
As soon as the palpable unfathomableness of space is reduced to the barren notion of a mathematical "infinity" all the free and terrible beauty of life is lost. ❋ John Cowper Powys (1917)
It is a clumsy and crude metaphor or analogy drawn from the objective world and projected into that region of sheer unfathomableness which lies beyond human thought. ❋ John Cowper Powys (1917)
But as I have indicated again and again, no movement of human logic, no energy of human reason, can destroy the unfathomableness of Nature. ❋ John Cowper Powys (1917)
The fact that such a universe is in part a creation of the mind, and in part a discovery made by the mind when it flings itself upon the unknown, does not lessen or diminish the strangeness or unfathomableness of life. ❋ John Cowper Powys (1917)
Since this mass of impression, which we name the universe, is on all sides lost in a margin of unfathomableness, it is, after all, only a limited portion of it which comes into the scope of our consciousness. ❋ John Cowper Powys (1917)
Although the universe depends for its objective reality upon the vision of the immortals and incidentally upon all the visions of all the souls born into the world, it is not true to say that either the vision of the immortals or the visions of all souls, or even both of these together, exhaust the possibilities of the universe and sound the depths of its unfathomableness. ❋ John Cowper Powys (1917)
In this view of the sun and the moon and the stars such a savage was perfectly within his right, because always along with it even to the most anthropomorphic, there came the vague sense of unfathomableness. ❋ John Cowper Powys (1917)
The natural Necessity of the ancient Greeks, the trinitarian God of the mediaeval school-man, the great First Cause of the eighteenth-century deist, the primordial Life-Force of the modern man of science, are all on common ground here in regard to the unfathomableness of the ultimate mystery. ❋ John Cowper Powys (1917)
The fact that man's apex-thought reveals the presence of an unending procession of living souls, each of whose creative energy moulds this mystery to its own vision, does not remove the unfathomableness of the world-stuff whereof they mould it. ❋ John Cowper Powys (1917)
If it be an intellectual truth, or a ghostly image, through which God reveals Himself in His unfathomableness, this is received in the understanding; and the man can clothe it in words in so far as it can be expressed in words. ❋ 1293-1381 (1916)
But our reason abides here with open eyes in the darkness, that is, in an abysmal ignorance; and in this darkness, the abysmal splendour remains covered and hidden from us, for its overwhelming unfathomableness blinds our reason. ❋ 1293-1381 (1916)
Let him speak further, if he pleases, of the boil on the old lady's back; let him find and hurl to the startled winds more and yet more of his perorations which overwhelm one with terrific unfathomableness. ❋ Unknown (1905)
And what can equal for unfathomableness the workings of a woman's heart? ❋ John Oxenham (1896)
Indeed, this “heavenly unfathomableness” was a strong characteristic of his nature, and the gracious silence in which he often dwelt gave a rare sense of song without words. ❋ Fields, Annie, 1834-1915 (1896)
Indeed, this "heavenly unfathomableness" was a strong characteristic of his nature, and the gracious silence in which he often dwelt gave a rare sense of song without words. ❋ Annie Fields (1874)
