Quotes About Understanding

Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.

Livet forstås baglæns, men må leves forlæns.

Historiassa kaikki ymmärretään jälkikäteen ja sen vuoksi unohdetaan, että kuolleet kerran elivät.

That instant he dies – for one who does not understand that the whole power of the spirit is required for dying, and that the hero always dies before he dies, that man will not get so very far with his conception of life.

Intohimo ei merkitse sanoja.

Het is allemaal waar wat de filosofie zegt: het leven moet achterwaarts worden begrepen. Maar dan vergeet men de tweede zin: dat het voorwaarts moet worden geleefd.

Het is beslist waar, zoals de filosofen zeggen, dat het leven naar achteren moet worden begrepen. Maar ze vergeten de andere kwestie, dat het leven naar voren moet worden geleefd." Origineel in het Deens: "Det er ganske sandt, hvad Philosophien siger, at Livet maa forstaaes baglaends. Men derover glemmer man den anden Saetning, at det maa leves forlaends.

Wat voor goed zou het me doen als de waarheid voor me stond, koud en naakt, en er niet om gaf of ze door mij werd herkend of niet.

To go beyond Hegel is a miracle, but to get beyond Abraham is the easiest thing of all. I for my part have devoted a good deal of time to the understanding of the Hegelian philosophy, I believe also that I understand it tolerably well, but when in spite of the trouble I have taken there are certain passages I cannot understand, I am foolhardy enough to think that he himself has not been quite clear. All

Why didn't you say that's what you were planning in the first place?" Vaughn smiled. "Because, Doctor, when they make you a commander, they take the bone out of your head that makes you explain orders.

If, at the close of business each evening, I myself can understand what I've written, I feel the day hasn't been totally wasted.

History is not tied to slogans and ideals and reform movements. It is to rid ourselves of notions of doctrines and movements and look at the incidents of the past as they actually happened. And this can't happen unless we allow our minds to be cleared of the illusions created by the present.

I like you, Mike. I just wanted to know about you." He grinned and finished building the fire. "OK, point taken, and I like you too, Juney. It was an RPG." "Role-playing game?" she asked, bewildered, and saw him laugh aloud, his head thrown back—for the first time since they met, she realized. "Rocket Propelled Grenade," he said.

if wisdom was easy any fool would be able to do it.

I really know the implications, and you don't. We're not talking about a better breed of catapults or . . . or D&D hit levels.

It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view.

Sometimes the way to a man's heart is through his talleywacker.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

We all long for someone with whom we are able to share our peculiar burdens of being alive.

The Abbe Paul looked at Agnes rather as Alain had, with respect. 'How sensible. People are desperate to probe mysteries which for the most part are best left unprobed. It is the modern curse: this demented drive to explain every blessed thing. Not everything can be explained. Nor should be, I think.

The word 'translation' comes, etymologically, from the Latin for 'bearing across'. Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately to the notion that something can also be gained.

The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.

A book is not completed till it's read.

It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.