The analyses. . . often become too competent to be comprehensible.
What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.
In describing one way of going mad, I shall try to show that there is a comprehensible transition from the sane schizoid way of being-in-the-world to a psychotic way of being-in-the-world.
Often, very often, I am alone. My studio in Amsterdam, (Beckmann lived in the center of Amsterdam during World War 2. ) an enormous old tobacco storeroom is again filled in my imagination with figures from the old days and from the new, like an ocean moved by storm and sun and always present in my thoughts. Then shapes become beings and seem comprehensible to me in the great void and uncertainty of the space which I call god.
From the very fact the universe is on the whole orderly, in a manner comprehensible to our intellect, is evidence that we and it were fashioned by a common intelligence.
The senses are our bridge between the incomprehensible and the comprehensible.
Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.
The speaker must choose a comprehensible expression so that speaker and hearer can understand one another.
I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.
Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.
It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds.
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 comprehensibility and fragility? Perhaps simple on the outsidefragile on the inside can be an effective survival strategy for evolving artifacts.
We're broken in complementary ways, thus rendering our damage comprehensible to each other.
An API that isn't comprehensible isn't usable.
The more comprehensible the universe becomes the more pointless it seems.
Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.
The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.
You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely
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.
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
