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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than

_Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human_
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 What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than

Oct 18,2020

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When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens, there

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 When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens, there

Oct 18,2020

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#quotes #oscar wilde #philosophy #self #understanding #knowledge #De Profundis

I would contend at all costs both in word and deed as far as I could that we will be better men, braver and less idle, if

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 I would contend at all costs both in word and deed as far as I could that we will be better men, braver and less idle, if

Oct 31,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #understanding #knowledge #learning #humanity #plato #Meno #curiosity

An active and sensate democracy requires that we learn how to read well, not just texts but images and sounds, to

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 An active and sensate democracy requires that we learn how to read well, not just texts but images and sounds, to

Oct 31,2020

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#quotes #reading #philosophy #awareness #understanding #politics #Judith Butler #democracy

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

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 The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

Nov 12,2020

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#quotes #life #philosophy #understanding #knowledge #learning #John Dewey #education #desires #Experience and Education #attitudes

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too

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 Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too

Nov 15,2020

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#quotes #wisdom #philosophy #understanding #knowledge #learning #Epicurus #Letter to Menoeceus #age

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.

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 It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.

Nov 22,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #self #awareness #understanding #language #knowledge #Simone Weil #communication #Gravity and Grace

What is meaningful cannot in fact be isolated… We achieve understanding within a circular movement from particular facts to

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 What is meaningful cannot in fact be isolated… We achieve understanding within a circular movement from particular facts to

Nov 25,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #understanding #facts #meaning #values #Karl Jaspers #General Psychopathology #particulars #universals

It is impossible for someone who is completely ignorant about nature to wash away his fears about the most important matters

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 It is impossible for someone who is completely ignorant about nature to wash away his fears about the most important matters

Nov 25,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #nature #Fear #understanding #knowledge #ignorance #Epicurus #Principal Doctrines

I’ve always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself.

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 I’ve always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself.

Dec 24,2020

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Everyone acknowledges that there are vast amounts we do not know, and that enormous opportunities for progress in

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 Everyone acknowledges that there are vast amounts we do not know, and that enormous opportunities for progress in

Feb 06,2021

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#science #quotes #philosophy #understanding #knowledge #progress #Thomas Nagel #Mind and Cosmos #naturalism #scientism #teleology

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

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

Feb 22,2021

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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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 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

Mar 16,2021

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

May 16,2021

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#quotes #oscar wilde #philosophy #understanding #knowledge #ethics #age

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

Aug 24,2021

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

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

Dec 04,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #awareness #understanding #Immanuel Kant #limitations #Critique of Pure Reason

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

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

Dec 09,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #understanding #knowledge #Edmund Husserl #Cartesian Meditations #skepticism

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

Dec 11,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #understanding #knowledge #fragments #certainty #limitations #Democritus

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

Dec 22,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #understanding #reason #rationality #Immanuel Kant #Critique of Pure Reason

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

Dec 28,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #understanding #zhuangzi #The Complete Works of Zhuangzi #daoism

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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 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

Jan 04,2022

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#psychology #quotes #quoteoftheday #writer #writing #literature #books #quote #words #motivation #wisdom #lit #philosophy #inspiration #prose #quotation #søren kierkegaard #philosopher #bibliophile #psychoanalysis #understanding #literary #soren kierkegaard #action #works of love #disposition

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

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

Jan 05,2022

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#quotes #philosophy #søren kierkegaard #understanding #knowledge #emotions #the present age #passions

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

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

Jan 09,2022

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

Jan 15,2022

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#demons #quotes #life #philosophy #understanding #meaning #purpose #Fyodor Dostoyevsky #reasons