But this latter notion, an expression of permanence underneath the various manifestations of nature, is for science only an abstract, symbolical formula: if we attempt to embody it, to make it concrete and representable, then, whether we will or no, it resolves itself into the feeling of muscular effort, that is, takes on a human character.
"Essay on the Creative Imagination"
Th. Ribot
On the contrary, I think it quite a defensible proposition that humility is better shown by a confession of incompetence to grasp in thought the Cause of all things; and that the religious sentiment may find its highest sphere in the belief that the Ultimate Power is no more representable in terms of human consciousness than human consciousness is representable in terms of a plant's functions.
"Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I"
Herbert Spencer
Where the proof of its logical possibility,-that is, that the word has any representable sense?
"Literary Remains, Vol. 2"
Coleridge