Quotes About Understanding

Finito il turno Arturo torna a casa, alle volte un po' dopo e alle volte un po' prima che suoni la sveglia della moglie, Elide. Lei, stirandosi con "una specie di dolcezza pigra", gli mette le braccia al collo, e dal suo giaccone capisce il tempo che fa fuori.

??c là ni?m cô ??n.

La conoscenza del prossimo ha questo di speciale: passa necessariamente attraverso la conoscenza di se stesso.

Erst wenn man die Oberfläche der Dinge kennen gelernt hat, kann man sich aufmachen, um herauszufinden, was darunter sein mag. Doch die Oberfläche der Dinge ist unerschöpflich.

The world is so complicated, tangled, and overloaded that to see into it with any clarity you must prune and prune. In

I have finally come around to asking myself what is expressed in that sand of written words which I have strung together throughout my life, that sand that seems to me to be so far away from the beaches and desert of living. Perhaps by staring at the sand as sand, words as words, we can come close to understanding how and to what extent the world that has been ground down and eroded can still find in sand a foundation and model.

The proper use of language, for me personally, is one that enables us to approach things (present or absent) with discretion, attention, and caution, with respect for what things (present or absent) communicate without words.

As soon as I set foot there, everything I had imagined was forgotten; Pyrrha had become what is Pyrrha; and I thought I had always known

De una ciudad no disfrutas las siete o setenta y siete maravillas, sino la respuesta que da a una pregunta tuya

Chi comanda al racconto non è la voce: è l'orecchio

It just wasn't possible to make him accept a reality different from his own.

Azt vallom tehát, hogy akkor használjuk helyesen a nyelvet, hogyha tapintatosan, figyelmesen és óvatosan közelítünk vele a (jelen lév? vagy hiányzó) dolgokhoz, tiszteletben tartva azt, amit a (jelen lév? vagy hiányzó) dolgok szavak nélkül is közölnek.

What is more natural than that a solidarity, a complicity, a bond should be established between Reader and Reader, thanks to the book?

But our mother, the most distant from him, perhaps, seemed the only one who could accept him as he was, maybe because she didn't try to find an explanation.

Certo il costo da pagare è alto ma dobbiamo accettarlo: non poterci distinguere dai tanti segnali che passano per questa via, ognuno con un suo significato che resta nascosto e indecifrabile perché fuori di qui non c'è più nessuno capace di riceverci e d'intenderci.

To be able to read the classics you have to know "from where" you are reading them; otherwise both the book and the reader will be lost in a timeless cloud.

There is a place where spiders make their nests. Only Pin knows it. He's the only one in the whole valley, perhaps in the whole area. No other boy except Pin has ever heard of spiders that make nests. Perhaps one day Pin will find a friend, a real friend, who understands him and whom he can understand, and then to him, and only to him, will he show the place where the spiders have their lairs.

anyone who wants to see the earth properly must keep himself at a necessary distance from it

Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself.

No one, wise Kublai, knows better than you that the city must never be confused with the words that describe it.

Ils se connurent. Il la connut et se connut lui-même parce que, réellement, il n'avait jusque là rien su de lui. Elle le connut et se connut elle-même parce que, tout en sachant tout ce qu'elle était, elle ne l'avait jamais aussi bien senti.

All interpretation is a use of violence and caprice against a text.

Solo dopo aver conosciuto la superficie delle cose, ci si può spingere a cercare quel che c'è sotto. Ma la superficie delle cose è inesauribile.

Se alzi un muro, pensa a ciò che resta fuori!