Quotes About Understanding

Lacking the ability to love, we grow weary, even before they are spoken, of the words we would have to say in order to be loved.

The scholiast who annotated Virgil was wrong. Understanding is what wearies us most of all. To live is to not think.

Var olan tek s?r, bir s?r olduÄŸunu düÅŸünen insanlar?n olmas?d?r.

Let grammar rule the man who doesn't know how to think what he feels. Let it serve those who are in command when they express themselves.

Wise is the one who does not seek.

dieser heilige Instinkt, der uns veranlasst, keine Theorien zu haben...

On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable.

I've already seen everything I've never seen. I've already seen everything I haven't yet seen.

I excuse you from having to appear in my idea of you.

Poseemos algo? Si ni siquiera sabemos lo que somos, ¿cómo hemos de saber lo que poseemos?

Art consists in making others feel what we feel, in freeing them from themselves, by offering them our own personality as a liberation.

Como atividade cientifica, virtual que seja, procura conhecer; como atividade artística, procura sentir

Desterrad el error infantil de preguntar el sentido de las cosas o de las palabras. Nada tiene sentido.

other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen to each other and hear only a voice inside ourself.

Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable.

No el amor, sino los alrededores es lo que vale la pena... La represión del amor ilumina sus fenómenos con mucha más claridad que la misma experiencia.

Despedíos del error infantil de preguntar el sentido de las cosas y las palabras. Nada tiene sentido.

Irony is the first sign that our consciousness has become conscious, and it passes through two stages: the one represented by Socrates, when he says, 'All I know is that I know nothing,' and the other represented by Sanches,* when he says, 'I don't even know if I know nothing.

A metà strada tra la fede e la critica c'è sempre l'ostello della ragione. La ragione è la fede in ciò che si può comprendere senza fede; ma è anche essa stessa una fede, perchè comprendere implica presupporre che esista qualcosa di comprensibile.

Para el hombre vulgar, sentir es vivir y pensar es saber vivir. Para mí, pensar es vivir y sentir no es más que el alimento del pensar.

20 [56] That is the central error of a literary imagination: the idea that other people are like us and must therefore feel like us. Fortunately for humanity, each man is only himself and only the genius is given the ability to be others as well.

If only one had not learned from birth onwards, to give certain accepted meanings to everything, but instead was able to see the meaning inherent in each thing rather than that imposed on it from without.

Action disconcerts us, partly because of our physical incompetence, but mainly because it offends our moral sensibility. We consider it immoral to act. It seems to us that every thought is debased when expressed in words, which transform the thought into the property of others, making it understandable to anyone who can understand it.

Two people say 'I love you' or mutually think it and feel it, and each has in mind a different idea, a different life, perhaps even a different colour or fragrance, in the abstract sum of impressions that constitute the soul's activity.