Quotes About Understanding

As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the collector comprehend.

Truth resists being projected into the realm of knowledge.

A real translation is transparent.

True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language, as if strengthened by its own medium, to shine even more fully on the original.

meaning is never found in relative independence, as in individual words or sentences; rather, it is in a constant state of flux –

Es bringt uns nämlich nicht weiter, die rätselhafte Seite am Rätselhaften pathetisch oder fanatisch zu unterstreichen; vielmehr durchdringen wir das Geheimnis nur in dem Grade, als wir es im Alltäglichen wiederfinden, kraft einer dialektischen Optik, die das Alltägliche als undurchdringlich, das Undurchdringliche als alltäglich erkennt...

Der Name ist das innerste Wesen der Sprache.

Bir insan? ancak onu ümitsizce seven tan?r.

Ser feliz significa poder tomar conciencia de uno mismo sin llevarse un susto.

Articolare storicamente il passato non significa conoscerlo <>. Significa impadronirsi di un ricordo come esso balena nell'istante di un pericolo.

Instead of giving his own opinion, a great critic enables others to form their opinion on the basis of his critical analysis.

To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize "how it really was." It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger.

it is well to heed the old adage—" listen to both sides of the story." Among the many reasons for this, and perhaps most important, is the fact that if everyone is against something (particularly heroin addiction), one can assume that there is something which can be said in its favor.

Men whose constant companion was death needed women in a way most men couldn't understand.

That's the thing people can't see when they're explaining to your butt what's going on and how you messing up. They can't see that you knew it long before they did.

Simplicity isn't just a visual style. It's not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of the complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep.

I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis," he later said.

Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion.

When another asserted something that I thought an error, I denied myself the pleasure of contradicting him.

Knowledge, he realized, "was obtained rather by the use of the ear than of the tongue.

Those who are in love with practice without theoretical knowledge are like the sailor who goes onto a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whither he is going," he wrote in 1510. "Practice must always be founded on sound theory."11

During the crossing, Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and by the time we arrived I was fully convinced that he really understands it.

Since the mathematicians have grabbed hold of the theory of relativity, I myself no longer understand it.

Now kids get a MacBook and regard it as an appliance. They treat it like a refrigerator and expect it to be filled with good things, but they don't know how it works. They don't fully understand what I knew, and my parents knew, which was what you could do with a computer was limited only by your imagination."8