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comprehend
«I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.»
«Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.»
Author: Ludwig van Beethoven
(Composer)
| About:
Music
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comprehend, comprehends, entrance, entrances, Entrance to, entrancing, incorporeal
«Religion closes off the central questions of existence by attempting to dissuade us from further enquiry by asserting that we cannot ever hope to comprehend. We are, religion asserts, simply too puny.»
Author: Peter William Atkins
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asserting, asserts, attempting, central, closes, comprehend, dissuade, dissuaded, dissuading, enquiry, puny, The central
«Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.»
Author: Ansel Adams
(Photographer)
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Myths,
Truth
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comprehend, creeds, heroic, myths, struggles
«So philosophers so throughly comprehend us as horses.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
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Horses
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comprehend, horses, philosophers
«Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which 'are' there.»
«I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.»
Author: Bob Dylan
| About:
Future,
Mankind,
Mind,
Past
| Keywords:
comprehend, comprehended, comprehending, comprehends, human mind, illusions, manipulate, manipulated, Manipulating
«Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar - Requires sorest need.»
Author: Emily Dickinson
(Poet)
| About:
Success
| Keywords:
comprehend, counted, sorer, sorest, sweetest
«Science urges us to occupy by our mind the immensity of the knowable world; our spiritual teacher enjoins us to comprehend by our soul the infinite spirit which is in the depth of the moving and changing facts of the world; the urging of our artistic»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
artistic, comprehend, depth, enjoin, enjoins, immensity, knowable, occupy, spiritual world, urges, urging