Quotes About Understanding

If the word is not the thing what the hell is it? Without the word you have no way of experiencing anything at all. Without the word you are not separate from whatever you are looking at or what is going on inside of you. The word is the knowledge. Without that knowledge you don't even know whether it is pain or pleasure that you experience, whether it is happiness or unhappiness, whether it is boredom or its opposite.

freedom exists not in finding answers, but in the dissolution of all questions.

Bilgi sahibi olmadan, fikir sahibi olunmaz.

Human existence and action are characterized by their capacity for meaning.28 No form of human life can be defined "without reference to meaning. It makes sense [Sinn] to understand meaning [Sinn] as the fundamental category of human existence."29

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

Love tells us many things that are not so.

Zu Hause sein. Was heißt das? Es heißt, dass da jemand ist, den alles, was du erlebt hast und noch erleben wirst, interessiert.

All these people who have understood, and who want to be close, perhaps they are the most important people. The ones who dare to come close, and share both pain and pleasure.

In general, for many scholars writing today, what is problematic about consciousness is its "phenomenal quality" or the fact that "there is something it is like" to be conscious (Nagel, 1974). Piaget does not address this issue head-on but rather through addressing the more important problem of how subjects develop a meaningful understanding of themselves and the world.

To my way of thinking, knowing an object does not mean copying it – it means acting upon it" (Piaget, 1970, p. 15; cf. Piaget & Inhelder, 1966/1971, pp. 385–386).

Organs are supple and capable of adapting to different situations and domains. Finally, they are open to development, and this is precisely what "stable systems" (Case, 1992a, p. 5) are not. But organs are much more complex than such systems, and it is much more difficult to understand them.

First, higher mental functions are grounded in and emerge out of a practical, prereflective form of intelligence.

Kant argued that our intuition (i.e., sensibility) and understanding use a priori (i.e., independent of all experience) forms and categories, which are the condition of the possibility for experiencing objectivity. Piaget subscribed to the ordering and organizing function of the mind, but he believed that the forms and categories are not a priori but undergo development as a result of the subject's interaction with the world (OI, pp. 376–395).

Is it possible that a contingent genesis can lead to necessary knowledge?

Because psychologists generally take knowledge as unproblematic, the complexity of Piagetian theory seems simply superfluous.

Such is Kant's (1787/1933, B180) "schematism of understanding," though he candidly confessed that how this occurred was a mystery "in the depths of the human soul.

Piaget's account of equilibration is not only crucial for understanding his approach, it also sets his theory apart from most other theories concerning cognitive development.

I only knew what was in my mind, and I wished to express it clearly

the most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticised.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...

Love is wiser than wisdom.

As the man said, for every complex problem there's a simple solution, and it's wrong.

Primero el amor, el conocimiento después.

Seek first to understand, then and only then to be understood.