Quotes About Understanding

My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love." —Albert Camus

when it comes to pleasuring women and conversing in the language of love, cunnilingus should be every man's native tongue.

Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle.

Family is what works.

Language and how close it comes to truth, and how far away it is.

The prices are vertiginous. Carlinhos and Wagner take a booth and they talk and dip their wafers of exquisite beef into the sauces but most of the time they keep companionable silence together, as close men do, and find they have communicated everything. Run

Babies are tedious. Kids only start to become human on their fifth birthday.

but most of the time they keep companionable silence together, as close men do, and find they have communicated everything.

The Ministry of Pain does not judge, who are you to say what is normal and what is not?

COLD. "Cold," he said, and understood. Cold was the meaning for his shivering body, the steaming billows of his breath, the trickleways of water down the windows

We measure our own humanity by how we respond to the unprogrammed, the unpredictable.

Any AI smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it.

There did not have to be a moral. She need only show separate minds, as alive as her own, struggling with the idea that other minds were equally alive. It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding, above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you. And only in a story could you enter these different minds and show how they had an equal value. That was the only moral a story need have.

We judge others by their actions, but we judge ourselves by our intentions.

I doubt he'd give me the smell from his farts—no, tell a lie: in that one respect he's being more than generous.

He'd tried to talk to you about anarchy yesterday but his English and your French conspired against the dialog.

He's a piece of the jigsaw.' 'Maybe so, John, but if he is, he's a bit of sky or cloud – I can see the picture clearly enough without him.

information was like a stone skimming across the surface of his brain, soon sinking, never to be retrieved.

No one knows what women want!

If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.

Math is a product of human minds but not bendable to human will

En realidad, una de las grandes fortalezas de la ciencia es la habilidad para inferir cosas que no podemos observar directamente a partir de las que sí podemos.

the chimpanzee can't articulate his state of mind to us, or answer our questions about it. But then, for all of his physical differences, if he could talk he would be one of us. Nothing else he could do would place him more emphatically in the human camp, for it has been recognized since ancient times that language defines us as nothing else does.

PROLOGUE Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they come from the ends of the earth! —RUDYARD KIPLING, The Ballad of East and West