Comprehended Quotes
49 quotes by 47 authors
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A comprehended god is no god.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists in a jingle…
— Joseph Addison
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Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is life…
— Norman Cousins
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Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have…
— Herman Melville
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For the little that one has reflected on the origin of our knowledge, it is easy to perceive that we can acquire it only by…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by numerous examples that…
— David Hilbert
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Archaeology, I found, comprehended all manner of excitement and achievement. Adventure is coupled with bookish toil. Romantic excursions go hand in hand with scholarly self-discipline…
— C W Ceram
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A comprehended God is no God at all!
— Gerhard
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It is completely incomprehensible to us how God can reveal himself and to some extent make himself known in created beings: eternity in time, immensity…
— Herman Bavinck
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The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one that is consciously realized is tremendous. In the first case,…
— Carl Jung
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If we analyze the operations of scenes of beauty upon the mind, and consider the intimate relation of the mind upon the nervous system and…
— Frederick Law Olmsted
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He knew that the whole mystery of beauty can never be comprehended by the crowd, and that while clearness is a virtue of style, perfect…
— Arthur Symons
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In great art there is no beginning and end in point of time. All time is comprehended.
— Robert Henri
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I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that…
— Maya Angelou
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At the very heart and center of existence, pervading the whole manifestation of the divine Idea, there exists one predominant Law. This Law – insofar…
— Geoffrey Hodson
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History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow…
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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One place comprehended can make us understand other places better.
— Eudora Welty
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Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity of number, though…
— Saint Augustine
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[God] is perfect not only insofar as He is absolute perfection, defining perfection in Himself and from His singular existence and total perfection, but also…
— Pope Dionysius
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Whoever isolates himself from the church, i.e., from Christianity as a whole, from the history of dogma in its entirety, loses the truth of the…
— Herman Bavinck
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