Quotes About Understanding

Something might be true, even if it were also harmful and dangerous in the highest degree; indeed, it might be part of the essential nature of existence that to understand it completely would lead to our own destruction. The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much truth he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he 'needs' to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified.

the bowels of existence do not speak unto man, except as man.

Hat man sein Warum des Lebens, so verträgt man sich fast mit jedem Wie. Der Mensch strebt nicht nach Glück; nur der Engländer tut das.

WE are unknown, we knowers, ourselves to ourselves: this has its own good reason.

know how to employ the diversity of perspectives and emotional interpretations for the advancement of knowledge.

There are people who are opposed to all philosophy and one does well to listen to them.

There is great advantage to be gained in distantly estranging ourselves from our age and for once being driven as it were away from its shores back on to the ocean of the world-outlooks of the past. Looking back at the coast from this distance we command a view, no doubt for the first time, of its total configuration, and when we approach it again we have the advantage of understanding it better as a whole than those who have never left it.

Of inference, all are capable; of judgment, only a few.

Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good.

better than they words express it, thine eyes tell me all thy danger

he who hears only a Will to Truth in the background, and nothing else, cannot certainly boast of the sharpest ears.

On account of those absolute and impatient ones, be not jealous, thou lover of truth! Never yet did truth cling to the arm of an absolute one.

and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

I want to teach them what is understood by so few today, least of all by those preachers of pity: to share not suffering but joy.

One who understands wanders among humans as among beasts.

If I must have pity, then I do not want to be called such; and if I do have pity, then rather from a distance.

What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent.

the properties of a particle can only be understood in terms of its activity—of its interaction with the surrounding environment—and that the particle, therefore, cannot be seen as an isolated entity but has to be understood as an integrated part of the whole.

Even at that, I don't suppose I should have been surprised. We all see things now and then.

Quien miente con arte se acerca a la verdad más de lo que imagina.

No hay forma de expresar determinadas cuestiones, y otras son tan complejas que un hombre languidece y muere antes de encontrar las palabras adecuadas.

Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make

A woman never tells you why she loves; she just tells you how she loves.

Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.