All 16 Uses of
comprehend
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- Something shapeless and even incomprehensible.†
Chpt 2 *
- If they, too, suffer horribly on earth, they must suffer for their fathers' sins, they must be punished for their fathers, who have eaten the apple; but that reasoning is of the other world and is incomprehensible for the heart of man here on earth.†
Chpt 5
- It's beyond all comprehension why they should suffer, and why they should pay for the harmony.†
Chpt 5
- And if it is really true that they must share responsibility for all their fathers' crimes, such a truth is not of this world and is beyond my comprehension.†
Chpt 5
- He always spoke in a tone that suggested that those two had some kind of compact, some secret between them, that had at some time been expressed on both sides, only known to them and beyond the comprehension of those around them.†
Chpt 5
- And that we are all responsible to all for all, apart from our own sins, you were quite right in thinking that, and it is wonderful how you could comprehend it in all its significance at once.†
Chpt 6
- Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day.†
Chpt 6
- Of the pride of Satan what I think is this: it is hard for us on earth to comprehend it, and therefore it is so easy to fall into error and to share it, even imagining that we are doing something grand and fine.†
Chpt 6
- Indeed, many of the strongest feelings and movements of our nature we cannot comprehend on earth.†
Chpt 6
- For the Eternal Judge asks of you what you can comprehend and not what you cannot.†
Chpt 6
- Perhaps we see here a 'sign' which neither you, nor I, nor any one of us is able to comprehend.†
Chpt 7
- On the other side your incomprehensible, persistent, and, so to speak, obdurate silence with regard to the source from which you obtained the money which was so suddenly seen in your hands, when only three hours earlier, on your own showing, you pledged your pistols for the sake of ten roubles!†
Chpt 9
- "It's incomprehensible."†
Chpt 9
- Perhaps it really is incomprehensible.†
Chpt 9
- Witness, your words are incomprehensible and impossible here.†
Chpt 12
- But this is, so to say, the mystical meaning which I cannot comprehend with my intellect, but can only accept by faith, or, better to say, on faith, like many other things which I do not understand, but which religion bids me believe.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(comprehend) to understand something -- especially to understand it completely