Quotes About Understanding

It is easy to kill. It is equally easy to destroy glass windows. Any fool can do either. Why is it only the wise who perceive that it is wisdom to let live, when even lunatics can sometimes understand that it is better to open a window than to smash the glass?

Truth is a ladder of many rungs, and that from each we gain a new perspective??

It doesn't stop being magic because you can you explain it, Father.

When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.

I sat silent before the book, and the book unsealed its lips and revealed to me things I had never heard before. When I was tired of studying I thought many thoughts, and this is one of them: Many generations ago a wise man wrote a book and he did not know of this man who sits here, but in the end all his words prove to be meant for him.

Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause—that it must be lived forward.

Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us — but not suckle us.

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.

The relief in speaking is that it translates me into the universal.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Acepta lo que hubieras escogido de haber podido escoger!

Veritas filia temporis

La vista del entendimiento, ten por cierto, empieza a ver adecuadamente cuando la de los ojos comienza a perder su fuerza.

If you are not familiar with the age in which we live, read my stories. If you cannot endure my stories, it means that this age is unbearable.

You would have realized that it wasn't Mumtaz, a muslim, a friend of yours, but a human being you had killed. I mean, if he was a bastard, by killing him you wouldn't have killed the bastard in him; similarly, assuming that he was a Muslim, you wouldn't have killed his Muslimness, but him.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

Let thy words between two foes be such that if they were to become friends thou shouldst not be ashamed.

?nsanlar birbirlerini tan?man?n ne kadar güç oldu?unu bildikleri için bu zahmetli i?e te?ebbüs etmektense, körler gibi rastgele dola?may? ve ancak çarp??t?kça birbirlerinin mevcudiyetinden haberdar olmay? tercih ediyor.

Dünyan?n en basit, en zavall?, hatta en ahmak adam? bile, insan? hayretten hayrete dü?ürecek ne müthi? ve kar???k bir ruha maliktir. Niçin bunu anlamaktan bu kadar kaç?yor ve insan dedikleri mahluku anla??lmas? ve hakk?nda hüküm verilmesi en kolay ?eylerden biri zannediyoruz?

Bundan sonra aradaki buzu çözmeye, bu insanlar?n birbirlerine kar?? duyduklar? müthi? yabanc?l??? gidermeye imkan yoktu. ?nsanlar birbirlerini tan?man?n ne kadar güç oldu?unu bildikleri için bu zahmetli i?e te?ebbüs etmektense, körler gibi rastgele dola?may? ve ancak çarp??t?kça birbirlerinin mevcudiyetinden haberdar olmay? tercih ediyorlar.

?çinde hakikaten sevmek kabiliyeti olan bir insan hiçbir zaman bu sevgiyi bir ki?iye inhisar ettiremez ve kimseden de böyle yapmas?n? bekleyemez. Ne kadar çok insan? seversek, , as?l sevdi?imiz bir tek ki?iyi de o kadar çok ve kuvvetli severiz. A?k da??ld?kça azalan bir ?ey de?ildir

Sana k?zg?n de?ilim.Sana k?zmayacak kadar seni iyi tan?yorum.Sonra seni seviyorum.Neden sevdi?imi bilmeden seviyorum.Bu sevgiyi her gitti?im yere beraber götürece?im.Allaha?smarlad?k.

Konu?maya ne lüzum vard?? Bütün güzel laflardan ve ho? insanlardan s?k?lan bu mahluklar?, birbirlerinin sessiz mevcudiyeti, yorgunluk verecek kadar doyuruyordu.