Understood Quotes - Page 27

• The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and their solution.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Reflection, Men, Contradiction

  "Materialism and Empirio-criticism: Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy (1908)". Book by Vladimir Lenin. Collected Works, Volume 14,

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• At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.

  Martin Luther

  Morning, Sleep, Heart

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• The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Needs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.410

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• Organized religion is sane and not silly when read as myth and poetry rather than science and law. Religion speaks nonsense when taken literally, but reveals some of the deepest truths of humankind when understood mythically, poetically, and even allegorically-that is when it is read with an active and creative imagination.

  Rami M. Shapiro

  Taken, Silly, Law

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• The right of ordinary citizens to possess weapons is the most extraordinary, most controversial, and least understood of those liberties secured by Englishmen and bequeathed to their American colonists. It lies at the very heart of the relationship between the individual and his fellows, and between the individual and his government.

  Joyce Lee Malcolm

  Lying, Heart, Government

  Joyce Lee Malcolm (1996). “To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right”, p.11, Harvard University Press

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• I maintain that any writer of a book is fully authorised in attaching any meaning he likes to a word or phrase he intends to use. If I find an author saying, at the beginning of his book, "Let it be understood that by the word 'black' I shall always mean 'white,' and by the word 'white' I shall always mean 'black,'" I meekly accept his ruling, however injudicious I think it.

  Lewis Carroll

  Book, Mean, Thinking

  Lewis Carroll (1955). “Symbolic Logic: Elementary”

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• Life must be understood before getting old, most preferably, in youth!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Youth, Getting Old

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• Ultimately, tragedy on earth can only be understood rightly from the perspective of heaven.

  David Platt

  Perspective, Heaven, Tragedy

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• I also understood that God's love shows itself just as well in the simplest soul which puts up no resistance to His grace as it does in the loftiest soul.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Grace, Soul, Doe

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• For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth of the Christian horror. Then I said: "It is a lie, and I hate your religion. If it is true, I hate your God." From that day I have had no fear, no doubt. For me, on that day, the flames of hell were quenched. From that day I have passionately hated every orthodox creed. That Sermon did some good.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Christian, Religious, Pain

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• The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the below things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful words in our language, the word enthusiasm.

  Louis Pasteur

  Beautiful, Greek, Enthusiasm

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• Everywhere sex is understood to be something females have that males want.

  Donald Symons

  Sex, Males, Female

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• Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

  Tom Chatfield

  Proxy, Attentiveness

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• Hitchcock was such a master of putting on screen things that made you uneasy. Somebody once asked him what frightened him most, and he said the police. He came from a poor background. I think he understood those fears.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Thinking, Police, Poor

  "OSCARS Q&A: Anthony Hopkins". Interview with David Mermelstein, deadline.com. December 30, 2012.

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• The paintings are not just on flat walls - you have these enormous niches, bulges and protrusions, as well as stalactites and stalagmites. The effect of the three-dimensionality is phenomenal. It's a real drama which the artists of the time understood, and they used it for the drama of their paintings.

  Werner Herzog

  Wall, Real, Drama

  "'The Birth of the Modern Human Soul'". Interview with David Gordon Smith, www.spiegel.de. February 16, 2011.

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• I think it's great that people now have access to Pro Tools and other recording software at home. I've never understood how anyone could be comfortable in a recording studio

  Michael Dumontier

  Home, Thinking, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I grew up in church and I don't think I necessarily understood what it meant to be called into the culture and the community in the city that you're in or the town that you're in and live effectively and be informed and be gracious with people.

  Shane Harper

  Thinking, Cities, People

  "Disney Channel sitcom star Shane Harper tackles big screen and big question – Is God real?". Interview With John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.

  Sigmund Freud

  Wish, Able, Aviation

  Sigmund Freud (2013). “Leonardo da Vinci”, p.75, Routledge

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• I was struggling to figure out how to combine the abstract and the representational. Painting, I suddenly understood how that aesthetic could fit together. That was a really fun game to figure out how that worked.

  Margaux Williamson

  Fun, Struggle, Games

  "'This Flat-Screen World'". Interview with Kenneth Goldsmith, logger.believermag.com. May 18, 2014.

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• I don't think I've ever tried to be something that I'm not. People do that for you. People try to pigeonhole you. People tried typecasting me, before they even saw me in anything else. I've never understood that. I was like, "Why don't you wait until my next project, before you start telling my what my career is going to look like, for the next 10 years?" I've never let it set me back because I always knew the world would try to do that for me, anyway.

  Chris Colfer

  Thinking, Careers, Years

  "Chris Colfer Talks STRUCK BY LIGHTNING, Chances of Adapting His Book THE LAND OF STORIES Into a Movie, and GLEE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 5, 2013.

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• I went through a change in my life and my career where I finally understood how to train and prepare. I finally understood what it meant, and I've had so many fantasies about being able to go back and be 16 again. And redo parts of my high school career. Redo all of my college career. Redo my attempt to make an Olympic team.

  Chael Sonnen

  Team, School, College

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I remember listening to Sugar Free and Jay Z and I never really understood some of the stuff they used to say until years later. Then you hear it again like, Damn that's crazy. I just got what he's talking about.

  Schoolboy Q

  Crazy, Talking, Years

  Source: www.vibe.com

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• I've never understood the need people have to dictate morality to other people. I really don't know what it is. I don't know if it's fear or the belief that they know the only right way. Or maybe they see a lot of social ills and social decline, and they really think they have the elixir for it.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• I was at a restaurant, and I ordered a chicken sandwich, but I don't think the waitress understood me. She asked me, "How would you like your eggs?" I thought I would answer her anyway and said, "Incubated! And then raised, plucked, beheaded, cut up, put onto a grill, and then put onto a bun. Damn! I don't have that much time! Scrambled!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Cutting

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• It was none the less a perfectly ordinary horse, such as convergent evolution has produced in many of the places that life is to be found. They have always understood a great deal more than they let on. It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them.

  Douglas Adams

  Horse, Animal, Ordinary

  Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency ch. 2 (1987)

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