Quotes About Understanding

We read the letters of the dead like helpless gods, but gods nonetheless, since we know the dates that follow. We know which debts will never be repaid.

But they know about us, they know, the four corners, and the chairs nearby us. Discerning shadows also know, and even the table keeps quiet.

Chiedo scusa alle grandi domande per le piccole risposte che ho dato.

In the small things is the genetic imprint of the larger things... You must reverse the small things as well as the larger things. You must learn to see not just with your eyes but with your heart and intelligence.

On siedzia? z sensem (bo czyta?), a ja bez sensu siedzia?em.

Ale mo?e raczej nale?a?oby powiedzie?, ?e naczeln?, podstawow? m?k? jest nie co innego, tylko cierpienie, zrodzone z ograniczenia drugim cz?owiekiem, z tego, ?e si? dusimy i d?awimy w ciasnym, w?skim, sztywnym wyobra?eniu o nas drugiego cz?owieka.

An excessive respect for scientific truth has obscured our own truth. In our eagerness to understand reality, we forget that we are not here to understand reality, but only to express it. We, art, are reality. Art is a fact and not commentary attached to fact.

It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?

Anything that can be said can be said clearly.

The I, the I is what is deeplt mysterious.

Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen

6.41 Der Sinn der Welt muss ausserhalb ihrer liegen.

Der Satz der Mathematik drückt keinen Gedanken aus.

Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist. Die Welt ist die Gesamtheit der Tatsachen, nicht der Dinge...

Logic is not a theory but a reflexion of the world.

As there is only a logical necessity, so there is only a logical impossibility.

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart takes pity on Leutgeb, ass, ox, and simpleton, at Vienna, March 27, 1783.

A synthesis embracing both rational understanding and the mystical experience of unity is the mythos, spoken or unspoken, or our present day and age.

what is the nature of the bridge between the sense perceptions and the concepts?

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

Is Knowledge knowable? If not, how do we know?

By now they had mastered my own language, but they still made simple mistakes, like using 'hermeneutics,' when they meant 'heuristic'.

It's funny. Maria Elena and I, we are meant for each other and not meant for each other, it's a contradiction.

Los pergaminos Normas y Proverbios Los malvados de corazón probablemente sabrán algo