Sentence examples for we cannot grasp from inspiring English sources

But we cannot grasp the full psychological impact of this "mutation in human nature" in purely secular terms.

If we cannot grasp these global issues – fundamental to our future prosperity and to our belief in the efficacy of the public realm – the disillusion with national politics will fester.

The former is an instance of the latter, which means that we cannot grasp the one independently from the other.

We cannot grasp immediately that the three angles of any triangle are equal to two right triangles, and must instead construct the steps of a proof.

When we complain that we do not see into the inner nature of things, this can mean no more than that we cannot grasp, through pure reason, what the things that appear to us might be in themselves….

Nicholas then proposes some geometrical "exercises" to provide his readers some object lessons designed to teach how we might reach for the unlimited even while we are aware that we cannot grasp what the infinite God may be.

If we are lucky we understand the project when it is built, but sometimes we still cannot grasp its meaning.

We feel it but cannot grasp its cause.

The problem is not one of knowledge; the problem is our obdurate, antediluvian minds that cannot grasp what we believe to be true.

On the other hand, the Aristotelian insistence, taken up by Aquinas in particular, that the intellect cannot grasp individuals as such made the explanation of how we can understand Socrates more complicated.

We submit that our pictures serve as the equivalent of, or replace, the descriptive categories for subjects who cannot grasp these sometimes-subtle, quantitative semantics.