Comprehends Quotes

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Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? — Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. — Ludwig van Beethoven
An instant realization sees endless time. Endless time is as one moment. When one comprehends the endless moment He realizes the person who is seeing… — Paul Reps
It is a sad thing when you hear Christians with a groan in them. When I meet the groaner, I say in my heart, "God,… — John G. Lake
Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic. — Albert Einstein
Now the gardener is the one who has seen everything ruined so many times that (even as his pain increases with each loss) he comprehends… — Henry Mitchell
Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. Justly understood… — Oliver Ellsworth
The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless. — Thomas Jefferson
The human condition comprehends more than the condition under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything they come in… — Hannah Arendt
Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative… — Samuel Johnson
The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ... — Bruno Bettelheim
In Kafka we have the modern mind, seemingly self-sufficient, intelligent, skeptical, ironical, splendidly trained for the great game of pretending that the world it comprehends… — Erich Heller
Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees. — Gregory of Nyssa
When the mind's eye rests on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and comprehends them, and functions intelligently; but when it turns to… — Plato
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
A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power over us. He cannot altogether be resisted;… — Charles Horton Cooley
God, move that man on into the place where he comprehends what Christianity is. — John G. Lake
The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it — Guy de Maupassant
Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of… — Benjamin Rush

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