"So we are grasped by what we cannot…" — Rainer Maria Rilke

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• ...the West's main weakness remains unchanged: it cannot grasp the fact that it is facing an acceleration in the unfolding… — Anatoliy Golitsyn
• One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it… — H. L. Mencken
• The Soviet transition to a new political structure shows that the Soviet strategists are thinking, planning and acting in broad… — Anatoliy Golitsyn
• One is always considered mad when one perfects something that others cannot grasp. — Ed Wood
• We cannot grasp the true meaning of the divine holiness by thinking of someone or something very pure and then… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
• A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language… — Ken Wilber
• Animals do feel like us, also joy, love, fear and pain but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is… — Denis de Rougemont
• Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel… — Ayn Rand
• My eyes already touch the sunny hill. Going far ahead of the road I have begun. So we are grasped… — Rainer Maria Rilke
• A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his… — Charles de Gaulle
• To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose… — Albert Einstein
• To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or… — Leo Tolstoy

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