Quotes About Understanding

From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition.

Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.

In the western philosophy you can't perceive infinities at every moment. It's not there to do.

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.

Das Ganze der Erfahrung gleicht einer Geheimschrift und die Philosophie der Entzifferung derselben. The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it.

Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.

By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.

Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

I'm a very tolerant man, except when it comes to holding a grudge.

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

It's ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can't see nothing." – Snipes (185)

Tell me something only you know and make a new friend.

Ain't no time to hate, barely time to wait

The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.

It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things.

Only he who does not seek to be ahead of others is capable of living in harmony with everyone.

First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a vacuous sport devoid of any significance.

The best of humanity is philosophy.

Philosophy asks the simple question: What is it all about?

Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood.

Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it.

The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion.