#apprehension

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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.


Henri Bergson


#faculty #intellect #necessary #other #reality

I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter.


Donald Cargill


#bitter #cannot #coming #desired #dreadful

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.


Gerard Manley Hopkins


#beauty #comparison #relation

It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up hating each other. So I just thought they needed telling really, in case they were labouring under the apprehension that they were still friends.


Peter Hook


#apprehension #being #case #each #end

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.


Pliny the Elder


#fear #grief #grieve #happen #happened

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.


William Shakespeare


#admirable #angel #apprehension #express #faculties

The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.


Roland Allen


#apostles #apprehension #cried #illumination #intellectual

Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’ ‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (...) ‘And?’ ‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective in reason, how mean his facilities, how ugly in form and movement, in action how like a devil, in apprehension how like a cow. The beauty of the world? The paragon of animals? To me the quintessence of dust.


Paul Hoffman


#apprehension #beauty #bosco #cale #consider

Though the task of opening those doors is in no means difficult, Andria finds herself unable to move her shaking legs, as her ankles tremble in her crystal heels, and her fingers, holding gently onto the length of her gorgeous gown, terribly shake in step with the beat of her precious, precious heart.


Hannah Nikka Bryan


#apprehension #door #fantasy #fear #fiction

If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever.


George Berkeley


#any #apprehension #beyond #creation #extraordinary