Sentence examples for Rational comprehension from inspiring English sources

God's transcendence above all rational comprehension and categorical knowledge ultimately reduces any expression of the divinity to polar pairs of contraries: grace and judgment, freedom and necessity, being and nonbeing, time and eternity.

As Mr. Rosenbaum points out in his book, there are scholars who believe that the very attempt to understand Hitler is itself not just impossible but obscene, because what he did and what he got the German nation to do are fundamentally beyond rational comprehension.

It would probably take another hundred years to watch them all end to end, so rich has been our culture's fascination with the Titanic, a tragedy large enough to provide a functioning allegory for the apocalypse, yet not so huge as to defy rational comprehension.

"How this can be described as a failure to engage the police service is beyond rational comprehension," the letter continues.

Heraclitus recognizes a close connection between a rational comprehension of the universe and a wise course of life (B112).

It is precisely in subjecting nature to experimentation and thereby to rational comprehension that spirit raises itself above nature.

They teach that rocking your head back and forth will get more blood to your frontal lobes "for greater comprehension and rational thinking".

"The Qur'an compels us to believe in the super rational; that which is beyond our comprehension".

"Thirdly, even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by most of those who receive it, be held in the manner of a prejudice, with little comprehension or feeling of its rational grounds".

Clarke's rational, scientific protagonists often encounter powers beyond their comprehension, created by advanced God-like beings.

So he wasn't only contending with a "rational" paranoia; he was also ensnared in the ongoing anguish of comprehension and absorption, as the sheer size of the trauma inched into consciousness.