Comprehends Quotes
37 quotes by 32 authors
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Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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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
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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
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Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic.
— Albert Einstein
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...
— Bruno Bettelheim
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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
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Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.
— Gregory of Nyssa
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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
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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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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
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God, move that man on into the place where he comprehends what Christianity is.
— John G. Lake
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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
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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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