Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
Anaïs NinTags: inspirational understanding
In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes.
Jane GoodallTags: science kindness nature understanding treat human-rights conservation help caring chimpanzees chimps consideration great-apes saved
There is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and the human tragedy, or the human irony, consists in the necessity of living with the consequences of actions performed under the pressure of compulsions so obscure we do not and cannot understand them.
Hugh MacLennanTags: necessity tragedy understanding irony
More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.
Richard DawkinsTags: willful-ignorance ignorance understanding satisfaction
I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.
Jacques DerridaTags: writing communication understanding influence deconstruction
Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
Robert A. HeinleinTags: wisdom religion understanding piety zealotry
Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.
Lemony SnicketTags: truth understanding
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Richard BachTags: friendship understanding
Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
AristotleTags: understanding teaching
If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in.
Frederick BuechnerTags: imagination love empathy understanding
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