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I don't profess any religion; I don't think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words ‘spiritual’ or ‘spirituality.'

[Interview, The New Yorker, Dec. 26, 2005]

Philip Pullman

Stichwörter: writing spiritual atheism understanding atheist difficulty possibility sarcasm spirituality

The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.

Immanuel Kant

Stichwörter: understanding

At the conclusion of all our studies we must try once again to experience the human soul as soul, and not just as a buzz of bioelectricity; the human will as will, and not just a surge of hormones; the human heart not as a fibrous, sticky pump, but as the metaphoric organ of understanding. We need not believe in them as metaphysical entities -- they are as real as the flesh and blood they are made of. But we must believe in them as entities; not as analyzed fragments, but as wholes made real by our contemplation of them, by the words we use to talk of them, by the way we have transmuted them to speech. We must stand in awe of them as unassailable, even though they are dissected before our eyes.

Melvin Konner

Stichwörter: soul will understanding

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Carl Sagan

Stichwörter: science truth knowledge religion understanding cosmology delusion

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Euripides

Stichwörter: reason stupidity understanding foolishness rationality sense

Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver

Stichwörter: empathy understanding tolerance misattributed-buddha

Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.

John Steinbeck

Stichwörter: hatred brotherhood-of-man understanding

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

C.G. Jung

Stichwörter: perception understanding self-awareness knowing-others