"What I want to grasp, together with you, is too simple, so simple that perhaps it cannot be grasped," she writes.
It cannot be grasped as anything at all: it things out thing after thing but is never thinged by things.
Any believer who is sincere must confront daily the contradictions that come with belief and somehow synthesize these opposing realities in a way that makes sense to the heart, even if it cannot be grasped by reason.
Without understanding this technique and the rationale behind it, the novel cannot be grasped in its entirety.
Dilthey emphasized that the essence of human beings cannot be grasped by introspection but only from a knowledge of all of history; this understanding, however, can never be final because history itself never is: "The prototype 'man' disintegrates during the process of history".
The building is not large — the total gallery space is less than seven thousand square feet — but it is complex, and its over-all shape cannot be grasped easily from the outside.
Or, stronger still, modern art sees itself as art only yet, precisely as art (only) can it give voice and expression to experiences that cannot be grasped by a post-Enlightened, philosophical reason.
Nothing that we come up with is likely to prevent the next disaster, but it will at least provide an explanation, and with it some respite from the discovery, which we make again and again, that life can turn on a dime, and that when it does it is often for no reason at all, or for reasons that cannot be grasped.
According to Bergson, it is something that just has to be intuited and cannot be grasped by discursive reason.
Since beings cannot attain such wisdom, reality as such cannot be grasped.
At the same time, Timaeus says he will strive to give an account that is "no less likely than anyone else's" (or "any other [account]") (29c7 8) and, while the account cannot be grasped by understanding (nous, 29b6 the faculty for apprehending unchanging truths), it nevertheless merits our "confidence" (pistis, 29c3).
