Quotes About Understanding

What counts is not the data, but the mind that deals with them. The data that Galileo, Newton, Ricardo, Menger, and Freud made use of for their great discoveries lay at the disposal of every one of their contemporaries and of untold previous generations. Galileo was certainly not the first to observe the swinging motion of the chandelier in the cathedral at Pisa.

The task of the sciences of human action is the comprehension of the meaning and relevance of human action. They apply for this purpose two different epistemological procedures: conception and understanding. Conception is the mental tool of praxeology; understanding is the specific mental tool of history.

It is common with narrow-minded people to reflect upon every respect in which other people differ from themselves. The

In retrospect all fools become wise.

The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity

Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert on us.

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.

What is your aim in philosophy?---To shew the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Only describe, don't explain.

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.

Don't for heaven's sake , be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that's a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn't insane. We are only doing philosophy.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.

I love you...But I made you cry.

when you're a point, all you see is the point. When you're a line, all you see is the line and the point. When you're in three dimensions, you see three dimensions and lines and points. Just because we can't see a fourth dimensions doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It just me ands we haven't reached it yet.

I knew that sometimes when people spoke, it wasn't because they had something important to say. It was because they had a powerful need for someone to listen.

If you want to understand something, you first need to accept the fact of your own ignorance.

When you do not understand the language being spoken, you have two options. You can struggle against the isolation, or you can give yourself up to it.

I was surprised that Kurt seemed to understand that you might never love someone as hard as you had the first time you'd fallen; I was even more surprised to learn that maybe you could.