Quotes About Understanding

consider a movie: it consists of thousands upon thousands of individual pictures, and each of them makes sense and carries a meaning, yet the meaning of the whole film cannot be seen before its last sequence is shown. However, we cannot understand the whole film without having first understood each of its components, each of the individual pictures. Isn't it the same with life?

A human being, it is true, is a finite being. However, to the extent to which he understands his finiteness, he also overcomes it.

No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same. Long

I doubt whether a doctor can answer this question in general terms. For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

I think the meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.

He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how.

By his love, he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized. By his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and of what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true.

All this came to my mind when I saw the photographs in the magazine. When I explained, my listeners understood why I did not find the photograph so terrible: the people shown on it might not have been so unhappy after all.

Affectus, qui passio est, desinit esse passio simulatque eius claram et distinctam formamus ideam.

Love is living the experience of another person in all his uniqueness and singularity.

Kami benci kalau harus bercerita tentang pengalaman kami. Tidak ada penjelasan yang perlu diberikan untuk mereka yang pernah menjalaninya, dan mereka yang tidak langsung merasakannya tidak akan pernah memahami bagaimana perasaan kami saat itu dan perasaan kami sekarang.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human

S]ex is devalued insofar as it is dehumanized. Sex in humans is always more than mere sex. It serves as the bodily expression of a relationship on the human level; it functions as a vehicle of a personal relationship.

U]ltimately it is not up to man to ask about the meaning of his life. Instead, man must be understood as someone who is asked; that is, life itself asks him, and he has to answer—his existence has to respond.

Meaning is missing in the world as described by many a science. This, however, does not imply that the world is void of meaning but only that many a science is blind to it. Meaning is scotomized by many a science.

The grasping of another person in his uniqueness means loving him[.]

el acto del amor y el acto del conocimiento se designaran en hebreo con la misma palabra.

Nadie niega que el hombre en ciertas circunstancias no puede comprender el sentido, sino que ha de interpretarlo, lo que ni mucho menos significa que esta interpretación se haga arbitrariamente. En efecto, a cada pregunta corresponde sólo una respuesta, la correcta, y a cada problema sólo una solución, la que vale; así también a cada situación corresponde un solo sentido, que es el único verdadero.

The ultimate meaning necessarily exceeds and surpasses the finite intellectual capacities of man.

sólo existen dos modos de tratar la Biblia: o se la toma al pie de la letra, o se la toma en serio.

Seit ich weiss, dass man mit Text nichts mitteilen kann, kann ich Texte verstehen.

This apparently non-symbolic, objective character of technical images lead whoever looks at them to see them not as images but as windows

Stansfield turned his eyes back to Rapp and Greta. It was not lost on him that Greta had reached out and was holding Rapp's arm. They were a couple. More than that, they were in love.

Only those things the heart believes are true.