Quotes About Understanding

Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows.

What a school of politeness is such a contemplation of the past! To take everything objectively, to be angry at nothing, to love nothing, to understand everything-- makes one gentle and pliable.

Only when he has attained a final knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are only the boundaries of man.

Allzulange war im Weibe ein Sclave und ein Tyrann versteckt. Deshalb ist das Weib noch nicht der Freundschaft fähig: es kennt nur die Liebe.

The way after all – it does not exist!

The philosopher is lacking who interprets the deed and does not merely transpose it.

What do you think most humane ?-To spare a person shame.

I pass through this people and keep mine eyes open: they do not forgive me for do not envying their virtues. They bite at me, because I say unto them that for small people, small virtues are necessary - and because it is hard for me to understand that small people are necessary!

Mult prea mult timp într-o femeie erau ascunÅŸi un sclav ÅŸi un tiran. Iat? de ce femeia nu-i în stare s? fie prieten?: ea nu cunoaÅŸte decât dragostea. In dragostea femeii se ascunde nedreptate ÅŸi orbire-mpotriva a tot ce nu iubeÅŸte ea. Åži chiar ÅŸi-n dragostea cea ÅŸtiutoare a femeii se afl?-ntotdeauna, al?turi de lumin?, surpriz?, fulger ÅŸi-ntuneric.

There is something the child sees that he does not see; something the child hears that he does not hear; and this something is the most important thing of all. Because he does not understand it, his understanding is more childish than the child's and more simple than simplicity itself; in spite of the many clever wrinkles on his parchment face, and the masterly play of his fingers in unravelling the knots.

The essential element in the black art of obscurantism is not that it wants to darken individual understanding, but that it wants to blacken our picture of the world, and darken our idea of existence.

Siempre hay algo de locura en el amor; pero también siempre hay algo de razón en la locura.

Oh, como somos felizes, nós que procuramos o conhecimento, se não quebrarmos o silêncio prematuramente!...

Not how one soul comes close to another, but how it moves away, shows me their kinship and how much they belong together.

People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

When the past speaks it always speaks as an oracle: only if you are an architect of the future and know the present will you understand it.

This modernity makes us ill: whinging peace and cowardly compromise, the whole virtuous filth of the modern mentality. This tolerance and largeur of the heart that "forgives" everything because it "understands" everything is a desert wind for us. Better to live amid the ice than among modern virtues and other such southern winds!

If, however, thou hast a suffering friend, then be a resting-place for his suffering; like a hard bed, however, a camp-bed: thus wilt thou serve him best. And if a friend doeth thee wrong, then say: I forgive thee what thou hast done unto me; that thou hast done it unto THYSELF, however--how could I forgive that! Thus speaketh all great love: it surpasseth even forgiveness and pity. One should hold fast one's heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one's head run away!

SUPPOSING that Truth is a woman—what then? Is there not ground for suspecting that all philosophers, in so far as they have been dogmatists, have failed to understand women—that the terrible seriousness and clumsy importunity with which they have usually paid their addresses to Truth, have been unskilled and unseemly methods for winning a woman?

Hay quien no encuentra su corazón hasta que no pierde la cabeza.

Men of profound thought appear to themselves in intercourse with others like comedians, for in order to be understood they must always simulate superficiality.

Not through enmity does enmity come to an end; enmity comes to an end through friendship.

It is hard to live with human beings because being silent is so hard.