Quotes About Understanding

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

That's why I love philosophy: no one wins.

Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

Philosophy begins with the understanding that you cannot just observe or experience and then report what you see, because how you conceptualize and symbolize alters experience.

We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.

My life belongs to me, my love belongs to those who can see it.

Philosophy is the sum total of all that you know and what you decide is valuable.

All knowledge is worth having

Don't judge me, you could be me in another life.

The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it

There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.

Knowledge is justified belief.

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It's there in their dreams.

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

A true philosopher is married to wisdom; he needs no other bride.

Come down off the cross, we could use the wood.

When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.

Mistakes, I know I've made a few. But I'm only human, you've made mistakes, too.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything.

Only through communication can human life hold meaning.