Quotes About Understanding

Ambiguity is essential to human existence, and everything we live or think always has several senses.

The phenomenal layer is, literally, pre-logical and will always remain so.

By returning to phenomena, we find, as a fundamental layer, a whole already pregnant with an irreducible sense.

Things are only half - opened before us, unveiled and hidden.

Perception is already expression.

As the thing, as the other, the true dawns through an emotional and almost carnal experience, where the "ideas"—the other's and our own—are rather traits of his physiognomy and of our own, are less understood than welcomed or spurned in love or hatred.

Remember that you cannot work on yourself unless you begin to wonder why you say what you say and do what you do and behave as you behave and feel what you feel and think what you think. To take yourself for granted, to imagine you are always right, to ascribe to yourself all that you do ascribe to yourself—all that form of sheer imagination will prevent you from seeing what esotericism means, what the Gospels mean, and what you mean.

Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there's no doubt about that. We just don't like to think about it. Certainly the men don't like to think about it.

What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is.

I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

Beware how you take hope from another human being. - Oliver Wendell Holms Jr.

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.

I hate your infernal croaking, but, if you're bound to talk, I suppose that I got to listen. Blaze away and finish up.

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be.

Whatever bro, tell it to the whales

Wise sayings are not always easy to understand at first. Sometimes it takes effort, time, and maturity to comprehend a deeper insight.

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

Tolerate the dull: they too have their story

As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.

Freunde müssen einander verstehen um Freunde zu bleiben. Brüder sind immer Brüder.