Quotes About Understood

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are, in effect, imprisoned by it. On the other hand, tradition can be understood as a pointer to that which is beyond tradition: the sacred. Then it functions not as a prison but as a lens.

A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.

Madame de Staël understood literature to include philosophy, history, social and political writing.

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood.

I've never understood the point of ecstasy. I think if I wanted to get dehydrated and jump about with a load of people I've never met before I could go to a Methodist barn dance.

I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.

Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer.

Pleasure and pain are immediate; knowledge, retrospective. A steel ball, suspended on a string, smacks into its brothers and nothing happens: no shock of recognition, no sudden epiphany. We go about our business, buttering the toast, choosing gray socks over brown. But here's the thing: just because we haven't understood something doesn't mean we haven't been shaped by it.

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

The mother of the heating contractor does not Have the same problem as the mother of the poet. When the mother of the heating contractor talks about her son It's usually understood, from the beginning, that her son, The heating contractor, is not pretending to be a heating contractor.

I told him that I had been under a lot of pressure at work and he understood. He then asked me some more questions. But as with all human questions, the answers were always there, inside them like protons inside an atom, for me to locate and give as my own independent thoughts.

The living physiology of the nervous system can only be understood by starting from phenomenal givens.

The actions in which I habitually engage incorporate their instruments and make them participate in the original structure of my own body. Moreover, my own body is the primordial habit, the one that conditions all others and by which they can be understood.

spirit of capitalism is best understood as part of the development of rationalism as a whole

But mostly there was the ease that came from not having to pretend you had ever recovered. The world wanted you to go on. The world needed you to go on. But the Mumble Jumbles understood that the loss soundtrack was always playing in the background. Sometimes it was on mute, and sometimes it was blasting away on ten, making you deaf.

One day" came. Because finally I understood.

By every mortal standard, the worst faeries in the world were those in the Dark Court. They fed on the baser emotions; they engaged in activities that the other-also amoral-faery courts repudiated. They were also the only ones she truly trusted or understood.

Sometimes it gets lonely here, the sea water collapses out beyond the horizon like the dream I thought I understood, only to find waking harder than the dream's horizon.

His decision to go west was not rash or forced, but as fully deliberate as any choice in his life. At the same time, he could not explain or articulate his reasons. It was something that he felt more than understood.

Sho ga nai, sho ga nai. How many times had he heard these words? It cannot be helped. His mother had apparently hated that expression, and suddenly he understood her rage against this cultural resignation that violated her beliefs and wishes.

For some reason, I immediately thought about how my parents had always been especially fond of Mavis, and here was this moment when I understood exactly why: she was a good person. It felt so good to realize how smart my parents had been all along.

But the boy was there, and he was looking at her. That was when Yorda understood what was drawing out her memories of the castle into the boy. It was him. He wanted to know its dark past. He wanted to know everything. No one could stop this. Not even the queen.

If dissociation, then, has been understood by psychopathologists to imply among other things 'loss of consciousness,' the question that immediately presents itself, or so one might think, is: what exactly is being lost--in other words, what is meant by consciousness? It turns out that it is exceedingly difficult to find an answer to this question in the psychiatric literature despite the seeming centrality of the issue.