... understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is the one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which liberty, health, and joy may be shaped or shaped towards, in the individual, and in the race.
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 James Agee
God doesn't believe in the easy way.
To come devotedly into the depths of a subject, your respect for it increasing in every step and your whole heart weakening apart with shame upon yourself in your dealing with it : To know at length better and better and at length into the...
..but you are too much for them: the weak in courage are strong in cunning; and one by one, you have absorbed and have captured and dishonored, and have distilled of your deliverers the most ruinous of all poisons; people hear Beethoven in concert halls,...
...and gentle happy and peaceful, tasting the mean goodness of their living like the last of their suppers in their mouths.
And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this should remain as it is, is a human being by definition only, having much more in common with the...
