To perceive is to suffer.
AristotleTags: life empathy suffer understanding
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]
Tags: 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 KantTags: 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 KonnerTags: 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 SaganTags: science truth knowledge religion understanding cosmology delusion
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
EuripidesTags: 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 CarverTags: 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 SteinbeckTags: hatred brotherhood-of-man understanding
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
C.G. JungTags: perception understanding self-awareness knowing-others
the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated.
Jeanette WintersonTags: fate self-discovery understanding destiny
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