~ The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing ~
~ The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. ~
~ Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
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~ If the human brain were simple enough to understand, we'd be so simple we couldn't.
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~ It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.
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~ Seek first to understand and then to be understood. ~
~ A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them. ~
~ A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. ~
~ It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox. ~
~ Contentment is accepting the world as an imperfect place. ~
~ We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow-men; and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. ~
~ It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.
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