Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
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.
The senses are our bridge between the incomprehensible and the comprehensible.
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.
An API that isn't comprehensible isn't usable.
However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.
Products have to be designed in a way that they are comprehensible.
Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to what is. Neither of them can tolerate capricious subjectivity because both are subject to their criteria of truth. Both require precision, order, and discipline because no comprehensible statement can be made without these. Both accept the sensory world as what the Middle Ages called signatura regrum, the signature of things, but in quite different ways.
Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.
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.
The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.
You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely
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.
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.
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.
Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.
The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.
The more comprehensible the universe becomes the more pointless it seems.