Quotes About Understanding

There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.

You may have as many words as you please -- only I can't stay to hear them.

Since I love him so much, I can easily forgive him for loving himself.

SPIRIT RULES SECRETLY ALONE THE BODY ACHIEVES NOTHINGis something you knowinstinctively at fourteen and can still remember even with hell in your headat sixteen.

I suppose you do love me, in your way," I said to him one night close to dawn when we lay on the narrow bed. "And how else should I love you —in your way?" he asked. I am still thinking about that.

Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate...

M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more

I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it.

Language is what eases the pain of living with other people, language is what makes the wounds come open again.

He had a respect for facts maybe this was one.

for when I look at you, even for a moment, no speaking is left in me

After all why study the past? Because you may wish to repeat it.

It is the edge separating my tongue from the taste for which it longs that teaches me what an edge is.

Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition.

Oral cultures and literate cultures do not think, perceive or fall in

A translator is someone trying to get in between a body and its shadow.

Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition.

There is something you should know. And the right way to know it is by a cherrying of your mind.

It seems that she knew and loved women as deeply as she did music. Can we leave that matter there? As Gertrude Stein says: 'She ought to be a very happy woman. Now we are able to recognize a photograph. We are able to get what we want.' -Marry Nettie, Gertrude Stein Writings (1903-1932)

Suppression of impertinence is not the lover's aim. Nor can I believe this philosopher really runs after understanding. Rather, he has become a philosopher (that is, one whose profession is to delight in understanding) in order to furnish himself with pretexts for running after tops.

?k voltak a tartály fenekén a legfenségesebb angolnák, és mint a dÅ'lt bet?k, felismerték egymást.

I hope that you will wave back to me from your distant shore, and understand the signal.

What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being.

Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.