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- I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.
- To destroy governmental violence, only one thing is needed: It is that people should understand that the feeling of patriotism, which alone supports that instrument…
- The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
- We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the beginning…
- Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by…
- I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.
- Under the influence of music, it seems that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do not understand, that…
- Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is not only…
- If you no longer believe in the God in whom you believed in before, this comes from the fact that there was something wrong with…
- Loving with human love, one may pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot change. Nothing, not even death, can shatter it. It is…
- People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity…
- Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state…
- All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
- Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges,…
- Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united…
- What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition…
- I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
- Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
- In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.
- I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now…
- Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand." - Anna Karenina {Anna…
- Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of music I really…
- I'll get angry in the same way with the coachman Ivan, argue in the same way, speak my mind inappropriately, there will be the same…
- Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence…
- Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.
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- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. — David Attenborough
- The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is… — Dean Acheson
- Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. — Saint Augustine
- To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. — Marcus Aurelius
- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen
- Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain. — Jane Austen
- It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Teresa of Avila