Quotes About Understanding

H]istory viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.

Sol Weintraub suddenly understood perfectly why Abraham had agreed to sacrifice Isaac, his son, when the Lord commanded him to do so. It was not obedience. It was not even to put the love of God above the love of his son. Abraham was testing God. By denying the sacrifice at the last moment, by stopping the knife, God had earned the right—in Abraham's eyes and the hearts of his offspring—to become the God of Abraham. Sol

Context is to data what water is to a dolphin

No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.

The only true voyage, the only Fountain of Youth," recited Orphu, "would be found not in traveling to strange lands but in having different eyes, in seeing the universe with the eyes of another person, of a hundred others, and seeing the hundred universes each of them sees, which each of them is.

No one wants to pay for a look at another person's angst.

Francis Bacon once said, "There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

Besides, history viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.

was being greeted by a silent, smiling band of bald, retarded children.

Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity." "Empathy," Aenea said softly.

The infant looked up at him and Sol felt the contact of her consciousness as surely as if she had spoken aloud.

Her eyes are open but she does not see.

No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives.

Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity." "Empathy," Aenea said softly. Father Glaucus turned his blind eyes in her direction. "Precisely, my dear.

entreaties.

It will make sense when it comes about. All improbabilities do when probability waves collapse into event.

I can tolerate anything, in dog or man, save for the refusal or inability to learn.

Sarai gripped his hand. "Do you think you're the only one who has had the dream?" "Dream?" managed Sol. She

So many important things pass quickly without being understood at the time. So many powerful moments are buried beneath the absurd

Finally, Weintraub had dealt with refusing all sacrifice, refusing any relationship with God except one of mutual respect and honest attempts at mutual understanding. He wrote about the multiple deaths of God and the need for a divine resurrection now that humankind had constructed its own gods and released them on the universe.

If you are reading this, you are almost certainly reading it for the wrong reason. But as with so many things in our lives, the reason for doing something is not the important thing. It is the fact of doing that remains. Only the immutable facts that I have written this and you are reading it remain important in the end.

If love is the answer, what was the question?

They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter.

There's no going back from what happened. You can go back and understand the past, but you can't go back and change it.