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.
Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic.
I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.
My chief reason for choosing Christianity was because the mysteries were incomprehensible. What's the point of revelation if we could figure it out ourselves? If it were wholly comprehensible, then it would just be another philosophy.
Why should Americans care about the Nazi back story in World War II? If you don't have the Nazi back story in World War II, World War II is simply not comprehensible.
A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.
You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely
What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.
Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.
Products have to be designed in a way that they are comprehensible.
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.
Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.
What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.
The senses are our bridge between the incomprehensible and the comprehensible.
