Quotes About Understanding

None of us finds it difficult to love the neighbor who seems inferior to us. But to love someone we know is superior is another thing.

Leer a Nietzsche como respuesta es no entenderlo. Nietzsche es una interrogación inmensa.

Whoever does not understand that two perfectly contrary attitudes can both be perfectly justified ought not to engage in criticism.

Classifying is the first step toward understanding; persisting in classifying is the first step toward confusion.

De statistiek is het werktuig van wie afziet van het begrijpen om te kunnen manipuleren.

Nothing makes clearer the limits of science than the scientist's opinions about any topic that is not strictly related to his profession.

A little patience in dealing with a fool helps us avoid sacrificing our good manners to our convictions.

The fool is scandalized and laughs when he notices that philosophers contradict each other. It is difficult to make the fool understand that philosophy is precisely that: the art of contradicting each other without canceling each other out.

Being reactionary is understanding that it is not possible to demonstrate or convince, only to invite.

Generalizing extends our power and impoverishes our spirit.

A man is called a liberal if he does not understand that he is sacrificing liberty except when it is too late to save it.

Appartengono alla letteratura tutti i libri che si possono leggere due volte.

Racionalismo es el seudónimo oficial del Gnosticismo.

Aufklärung es la traducción circunspecta de Gnosis.

Verdad es aquello que cualquier imbécil refuta.

La oscuridad de un texto no es defecto cuando lo que dice sólo puede decirse oscuramente.

Men disagree less because they think differently than because they do not think.

Nicht nach Freiheit strebt der Verstand, sondern nach Unterwerfung. Die Wahrheit ist der Glanz der Notwendigkeit.

La filosofía honesta no pretender explicar sino circunscribir el misterio».

To philosophize is to guess, without ever being able to know whether we are right.

Relativism is the solution of one who is incapable of putting things in order. Truths do not contradict each other except when they fall out of order.

El hombre no se comunica con otro hombre sino cuando el uno escribe en su soledad y el otro lo lee en la suya. Las conversaciones son o diversión, o estafa, o esgrima.

Genuine thought only discovers its principles at the end.

la pureza de quien no llegó a ser lo suficientemente impuro para saber qué cosa es la pureza.