Quotes About Grasp

human beings were fallen divinities, the forms of the divine world were within them and could be "touched" by reason, which was not simply a rational or cerebral activity but an intuitive grasp of the eternal reality within us.

Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice -- Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann (July 11, 1868)

The weapon of criticism cannot, of course, replace criticism of the weapon, material force must be overthrown by material force; but theory also becomes a material force as soon as it has gripped the masses. Theory is capable of gripping the masses as soon as it demonstrates ad hominem, and it demonstrates ad hominem as soon as it becomes radical. To be radical is to grasp the root of the matter. But, for man, the root is man himself.

Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.

The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.

Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if one wants to obtain a solid grasp and a perfect command.

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.

Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks of men. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what you can't grab onto.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

Climb the day, Drop your dreams, Possess the day.

Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity. To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment. Would you capture it or just let it slip?

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that you do.

People are learning to grasp the diversity of nature, to understand its unifying principles and to sweep away the hierarchies and see the real connections.

Language was not given to man: he seized it.

In all of its operations, cinema ceaselessly strives, and fails, to make present a world hopelessly beyond grasp. For this reason cinema is, in its very nature, a nihilistic medium.

The effective strategies in politics are ones that are so clear and obvious that people can grasp it.

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

Know it from root to fruit

Life is full of uncertainties. Ye must grasp the moment.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

I believe in opportunity and the power of reason to seize upon it.

Fleming doubted all this but he listened anyway and thought with a kind of sardonic amusement that before the night was over life itself might grasp him by the scruff of the neck and jerk him out of the doldrums he seemed grounded in and into its swifter currents.

But if you can understand the chapter's central point—that the value of a stock or a bond is simply the present value of its future income stream—then you will have a better grasp of the investment process than most professionals. As