Comprehensible Quotes

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Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable. — Josephine Hart
Buffett's uncommon urge to chronicle made him a unique character in American life, not only a great capitalist but the Great Explainer of American capitalism.… — Roger Lowenstein
Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to what is. Neither… — Rudolf Arnheim
Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the… — Rockwell Kent
We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence… — Unknown Author
I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's… — Karl Jaspers
This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage… — David Brooks
For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we… — Jim Al-Khalili
Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is… — Carl Jung
A church determined to hold only those doctrines that a secular world finds adequately comprehensible is a church that will hold to no central vital… — Albert Mohler
Will highly comprehensible code, by virtue of being easy to modify, inevitably be supplanted by increasingly less elegant code until some equilibrium is achieved between… — Brian Foote
Those who have a why to live for can bear almost any how. The necessary premise is that a person is somehow more than his… — Saul Bellow
What we believe about God is the most important truth we believe, and its the one truth that does the most to shape us. God… — Michael Spencer
People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Painting is the making of an analogy for something non-visual and incomprehensible - giving it form and bringing it within reach. And that is why… — Gerhard Richter
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
Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are… — Kenneth Tynan
What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life. — Carl Jung
Products have to be designed in a way that they are comprehensible. — Dieter Rams
What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. — Umberto Eco

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