Quotes with apprehensible

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• All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

  T. S. Eliot
  British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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• We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.

  Giordano Bruno
  Italian philosopher and priest (1548 - 1600)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• story-tellers
• apprehensible
• intelligible
• metaphysical
• transformed
• comprehends

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