Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.
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Bob Dylan
Don’t cry and don’t rage. Understand.
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Baruch Spinoza
The only way to heal yourself was to understand. Understand the love or the hate or the cowardice, or the impulsiveness, the lack of will of the one who hurt you--the circumstances that twisted them, the influences that warped them. And when you forgot yourself...
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Mary Schumann
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Elie Wiesel
In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.
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Khaled Hosseini
More Quotes By Mary Midgley
The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise...
What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify some special aspect of life, to supply conceptual tools which will do a certain necessary kind of work. Wide though that area of...
None of us can study anything properly unless we do it with our whole being.
Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started.
By contrast, if one conceives the idea of human rights as centring on the notion that each individual is completely autonomous and should have entire control over its own fate, this seems to me unrealistic even for human beings, and far too one-sided to be...
