Quotes About Understanding

The Diamond Sutra

Men find a new universe of thought and feeling, clearer and more comprehensible than the universe of daily experience.

Una de las principales funciones de un amigo es el sufrir (en forma más suave y simbólica) los castigos que queremos, y no podemos infligir a nuestros enemigos.

Una de las principales funciones de nuestros amigos estriba en sufrir (aunque de una forma simbólica) los castigos que nos gustaría infligir, y no podemos, a nuestros enemigos.

Jedna od glavnih funkcija prijatelja je da izdrži (u blažem i simboli?nom obliku) kazne koje bismo želeli, ali ne možemo da izvršimo nad našim neprijateljima.

Aldous Huxley

Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe; what wonder if he loved words and attributed power to them!

being of the knower, there is a corresponding

It is a knowledge of the intrinsic significance of every existent. For the artist as for the mescalin taker draperies are living hieroglyphs that stand in some peculiarly expressive way for the unfathomable mystery of pure being.

I neither suffer myself, nor other fools, gladly.

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell.

Look not so deeply into words and letters; for this Mystery hath been hidden by the Alchemists. Compose the sevenfold into a fourfold regimen; and when thou hast understood thou mayest make symbols; but by playing child's games with symbols thou shalt never understand.

Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt

But to understand English is one thing; to understand an Englishman who talks is another.

Belief is the enemy of knowledge.

There is no bond that can unite the divided but love.

Who hath the how is careless of the why

It is true that some of the so-called secrets are significant, but as a rule they are so only to those who already know what the secret is.

Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)

Truth is Truth; and the Truth of yesterday is the Truth of to-day, and the Truth of to-day is the Truth of to- morrow. Our quest, then, is to find Truth, and to cut the kernel from the husk, the text from the comment.

Moreover, the Beast 666 adviseth that all children shall be accustomed from infancy to witness every type of sexual act, as also the process of birth, lest falsehood fog, and mystery stupefy, their minds, whose error else might thwart and misdirect the growth of their subconscious system of soul-symbolism.

Si los hombres supieran lo que se puede conseguir con una lágrima, los querríamos más y los arruinaríamos menos.

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