#understanding

He knows enough to recognize the faults of others, but he doesn’t know his own faults. What can I do with a man like this? …

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The walking-stick that looks pretty so long as one carries it, but bends as soon as you rest your weight upon it, is

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There are seconds, they come only five or six at a time, and you suddenly feel the presence of eternal harmony, fully

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Very many controversies have arisen from the fact that men do not rightly explain their meaning, or do not rightly interpret

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You’re not really supposed to understand me, but I want very much for you to listen to me.

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We know nothing to be certainly good or evil, save such things as really conduce to understanding, or such as are able to

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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to

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In order to understand why it’s impossible, or almost impossible, for certain people to understand each other, one has to

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The self-deceived person may even think he is able to console others who became victims of perfidious deception, but

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You have heard of flying with wings, but you have never heard of flying without wings. You have heard of the knowledge

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I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be

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That little word ‘why’ has run through all universe from the first day of creation, and all nature cries every minute to

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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

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Our own age is essentially one of understanding, and on the average, perhaps, more knowledgeable than any former generation,

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The measure of a person’s disposition is this: how far is he from what he understands to what he does, how great is the

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Not to understand is profound; to understand is shallow. Not to understand is to be on the inside; to understand is to be on

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It is extremely absurd to expect to be enlightened by reason, and yet to prescribe to her beforehand on which side she

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We in fact understand nothing exactly, but what changes according to the disposition both of the body and of the things

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Anyone who seriously intends to become a philosopher must ‘once in his life’ withdraw into himself and attempt, within himself,...

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Indeed it is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy exists.

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The basest of all human needs is the need to confide, to confess. It is the soul’s need to go outside itself.

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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don’t know anything at all.

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To learn to see—to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and

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My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.

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