Apprehended Quotes
45 quotes by 41 authors
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It is not insignificant that my first apprehension of the love of God was granted in an experience with my father. Nor is it generally…
— Walter Wangerin
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NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult…
— Ambrose Bierce
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That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with the help of…
— Plato
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Of Love--may God exalt you! -the first part is jesting, and the last part is right earnestness. So majestic are its diverse aspects, they are…
— Ibn Hazm
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In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will extend…
— Edmund Burke
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In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.
— Rudolf Arnheim
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The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
— Arthur Helps
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We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a…
— Giordano Bruno
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Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer.
— Louis Bonaparte
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The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty apprehended from without,…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.
— Leo Tolstoy
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I was keenly conscious of the comrades-in-arms who had fallen with me. A bond surpassing by a hundredfold that which I had known in life…
— Steven Pressfield
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The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to…
— James Madison
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Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life…
— Kate Chopin
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The subject then of these chapters may be stated thus, - man's only righteousness is through the mercy of God in Christ, which being offered…
— John Calvin
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Whenever truth stands in the mind unaccompanied by the evidence upon which it depends, it cannot properly be said to be apprehended at all.
— William Godwin
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The only sense we still respect is eyesight, probably because it is so closely attached to the brain. Go into any American house at random,…
— Galway Kinnell
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Hardly any one is able to see what is before him, just as it is in itself. He comes expecting one thing, he finds another…
— Arthur Symons
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Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit.
— Aldous Huxley
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