Quotes About Misunderstanding

You know, I'm a good guy. I think people look at me in a different way until they talk to me or get to know me.

Problems with Ancelotti? No, he's a good person.

My mom has this thing where if I'm doing anything doing dirty or crazy, she sniffs it out and yells at me. But the good thing is my mom doesn't have cable, and so much of the stuff I've done was on cable, so many times she'll miss it. I tend to gloss over the crazier things I shoot.

I was dyslexic - was, still am - 'cause I would see words that weren't there. And people just started laughing, and I thought, well, this is a good way to make a living. I'll just go downtown to read and have people laugh, you know?

Pienso que nunca antes me habías humillado tanto con tus expresiones, ni habías demostrado más fehacientemente tu desprecio (p. 64)

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine that they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.

It's less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.

When brother fled from brother, when lovers passed Each other by in ignorance, when fathers failed To recognize their sons, when human words no more Were understood, nor human laws, that was when The meaning of it all assailed me and I trembled: It was my nation's parting god!

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad.

The word Christianity is already a misunderstanding; in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the cross.

The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason

When Zarathustra had spoken these words, he again looked at the people, and was silent. There they stand, said he to his heart; there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.

But I am still far from them, and my sense does not speak to their sense. To men I am something between a fool and a corpse.

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.

Our highest insights must – and should – sound like follies and sometimes like crimes when they are heard without permission by those who are not predisposed and predestined for them.

The race is corrupted—not by its vices, but by its ignorance: it is corrupted because it has not recognised exhaustion as exhaustion: physiological misunderstandings are the cause of all evil. Virtue is our greatest misunderstanding.

We are alien to each other, and their virtues are even more repugnant to my taste than their falsehoods and false dice.

There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause:

Misunderstanding of the dream. In the ages of crude primeval culture man believed that in dreams he got to know another real world; here is the origin of all metaphysics.

Poor. — Today he is poor, not because they have taken everything away from him but because he has thrown everything away. What is that to him? He is used to finding things. It is the poor who misunderstand his voluntary poverty.

But have you ever asked yourselves sufficiently how much the erection of every ideal on earth has cost? How much reality has had to be misunderstood and slandered, how many lies have had to be sanctified, how many consciences disturbed, how much God sacrificed every time? If a temple is to be erected a temple must be destroyed: that is the law – let anyone who can show me a case in which it is not fulfilled!

In fact, for the longest time on Earth, philosophy would not have been at all possible without an ascetic cover and costume, without an ascetic misunderstanding.