Incapable Quotes
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
"The Coming of Age". Book by Simone de Beauvoir (Part 2, Chapter 2 "Time, activity, history", p. 412), 1970.
Albert Camus (1965). “Notebooks, 1942-1951”
Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.101, Penguin
Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.
Hannah Arendt (1970). “On Violence”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.
L. Neil Smith (2001). “Forge of the Elders”, p.194, Baen Books
The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.
Leigh Hunt (1870). “Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings”, p.142
I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.
Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4224, Delphi Classics
No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.
Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.104
I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.176, Simon and Schuster