Quotes About Understanding

Bemerkung: Sonderbarerweise sind auch die Tatsachen, welche wir absolut sicher wissen (2 + 2 = 4, ich heiße Kurt) aus Begriffen zusammengesetzt, die wir nicht vollkommen verstehen (und die sehr kompliziert sind). 2 Erklärungen dafür: 1.) Das Einfache in der Welt sind die Tatschen und nicht die Begriffe. 2.) Diese sicheren Tatschen sind so, dass sie bei einem sehr weiten Spielraum von möglichen Interpretationen für Begriffe gelten.

There is a difference between a thing and talking about a thing.

Experience alone does not create knowledge

Nothing is more practical than a good theory.

Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to say it's your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there.

How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.

Das ist schön, mit jemanden schweigen zu können.

Man muss nicht alles so genau verstehen, lesen genügt auch...

Ich sah die beiden Heringe an, die beiden Heringe sahen mich an, wir schwiegen alle drei.

That story always seemed very symbolic to me...Yes, but I forget what it symbolised.

Erst habe ich gemerkt, wie das Leben ist. Und dann habe ich verstanden, warum es so ist, und dann habe ich begriffen, warum es nicht anders sein kann. Und doch möchte ich, daß es anders wird.

Wie wird das eigentlich mit der Sprache?" fragte die Prinzessin, als wir im Zug nach Helsingör saßen. "Du warst doch schon mal da. Sprichst du denn nun gut schwedisch?" »Ich mache das so«, sagte ich. »Erst spreche ich deutsch, und wenn sie das nicht verstehn, englisch, und wenn sie das nicht verstehn, platt - und wenn das nichts hilft, dann hänge ich an die deutschen Wörter die Endung as an, und dieses Sprech-as verstehas sie ganz gut.«

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.

Before seeing, before feeling, and before thinking: What is the mind?

If your brother pisses you off, tell him about. If he listens to you, he is your brother for life. Real profound. It is. Matthew said it. Who's Matthew? The Bible Matthew, yo? I doubt the Bible says "pissed off," Walt. I was paraphrasing. Just trying to elucidate the power of communication between brothers.

I want them to know that banning a book is like banning a hug and THAT is a dismal storm no child should be left behind in

Silence doesn't mean we have run out of things to say, only that we are trying not to say them.

I want them to know that banning a book is like banning a hug and THAT is a dismal storm no should be left behind in

I am urging that we should learn about people in other places, take an interest in their civilizations, their arguments, their errors, their achievements, not because that will bring us to agreement, but because it will help us get used to one another.

And, like many philosophers, I am of the school that what goes without saying often goes even better with saying.)