Marina Warner Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot be made simple, that complexity reigns and must be accepted.

  Marina Warner

  Heart, Simple, Creating

  Marina Warner (2013). “Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism”, p.249, Oxford University Press, USA

• I have always argued that we can't live by or be made to exist outside of mythology, and that every group and nation has, possibly unacknowledged to themselves, some myths by which they live. It remains important to revisit them, understand them and possibly retell them - or at least own up to them - and then it becomes possible to move something. If it's obscure or invisible to you, you can't budge those understandings.

  Marina Warner

  Moving, Understanding, Important

  Source: therumpus.net

• The model of the educational Kalila Wa-Dimna. These are books of instruction to rulers and humans. The stories unfold a range of human psychology, a vast range of human psychology. The Sultan is being moved from his narrow and bigoted position into a wider, more subtle, more nuanced understanding of human experiences.

  Marina Warner

  Educational, Book, Psychology

  Source: therumpus.net

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