Comprehensible Quotes

I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act.

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

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 questions to become comprehensible.

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 strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.'

Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

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 in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.

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 understanding of mankind.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.