Language

Jan. 27th, 2025 05:27 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

—Karl Kraus, Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms



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Understand

Sep. 4th, 2024 05:19 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“There doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.”

—Robert Brault, “Thoughts By the Sea,” The New Robert Brault Reader



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Prism

Jun. 29th, 2022 02:26 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“Empathy begins with understanding life from another person’s perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It’s all through our own individual prisms.”

—Sterling K. Brown, Variety, March 1, 2016




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Hatred

Mar. 30th, 2022 02:49 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“As you get older you understand where things are coming from better, you know maybe why somebody is being a jerk….You know the background of things more so it’s hard to flat out hate things….Hatred is such a luxury for youth.”

—Patton Oswalt, Late Night With Seth Meyers, May 21, 2020



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pjthompson: quotes (quotei)
Random quote of the day:

“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in the case of poetry, it’s the exact opposite!”

—Paul Dirac, quoted in Brighter Than a Thousand Suns by Robert Jungk (tr. James Cleugh)



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Seeing

Apr. 16th, 2021 02:38 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

—Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost



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Indulgent

Aug. 5th, 2020 01:40 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.”

—Mme. De Staël, Corinne



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Empathy

Jun. 25th, 2020 03:10 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“People are starting to understand the other side's perspective, and that's where empathy can sort of begin once you quit judging other people but just understand where they're coming from.”

—Sterling K. Brown, Ebony, September 19, 2019



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The Other

Mar. 31st, 2020 01:08 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“Persons are not known by intellect alone, not by principles alone, but only by love. It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who he is, and who we are.”

—Thomas Merton, letter to Dorothy Day, December 20, 1961



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Random quote of the day:

“I understand life less and less, and love it more and more.”

—Jules Renard, The Journal of Jules Renard, Feb. 1907 (tr. Bogan and Roget)



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Singing

Oct. 23rd, 2019 12:41 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don’t they try to understand singing birds? People love the night, a flower, everything which surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting…that they must understand.”

—Pablo Picasso, interview in Cahiers d’Art, 1935



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Insight

Dec. 9th, 2015 10:20 am
pjthompson: quotes (quotei)

Random quote of the day:

“[Age] makes you more aware of other people’s lives. You see more from the inside: the troubles, the sorrow, and the unfairness. And then when you accept that life is good, no matter how unlucky you are, you get a firmer insight into it.”

—William Maxwell, The Paris Review, Fall 1982, No. 85

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Patience

Jun. 30th, 2015 09:29 am
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Random quote of the day:

“You have to be a little patient if you’re an artist, people don’t always get you the first time.”

—Kate Millett, interview, On the Issues magazine, Vol. 10, 1988

patience4WP@@@

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Patience

Jun. 30th, 2015 09:29 am
pjthompson: quotes (quotei)

Random quote of the day:

“You have to be a little patient if you’re an artist, people don’t always get you the first time.”

—Kate Millett, interview, On the Issues magazine, Vol. 10, 1988

patience4WP@@@

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

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Random quote of the day:

“My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a light, my own light.”

—Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (tr. Clara and Richard Winston)

 light4WP@@@

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Confused

May. 9th, 2013 10:41 am
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Random quote of the day:

“If you want to live a different life without understanding what has brought about [your] confusion, you will always be in contradiction, in conflict, in confusion.”

—J. Krishnamurti, “How To Live In This World,” The Urgency of Change

 confusion4WP@@@

 

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Confused

May. 9th, 2013 10:41 am
pjthompson: quotes (quotei)

Random quote of the day:

“If you want to live a different life without understanding what has brought about [your] confusion, you will always be in contradiction, in conflict, in confusion.”

—J. Krishnamurti, “How To Live In This World,” The Urgency of Change

 confusion4WP@@@

 

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

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Random quote of the day:

“The how implies that somebody is going to give you a method, a recipe, which, if you practice it, will bring about understanding. Can understanding ever come about through a method? Understanding means love and the sanity of the mind. And love cannot be practiced or taught. The sanity of the mind can only come about when there is clear perception, seeing things as they are unemotionally, not sentimentally. Neither of these two things can be taught by another, nor by a system invented by yourself or another.”

—J. Krishnamurti, “How To Live In This World,” The Urgency of Change

 understanding4WP@@@

 

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

pjthompson: quotes (quotei)

Random quote of the day:

“The how implies that somebody is going to give you a method, a recipe, which, if you practice it, will bring about understanding. Can understanding ever come about through a method? Understanding means love and the sanity of the mind. And love cannot be practiced or taught. The sanity of the mind can only come about when there is clear perception, seeing things as they are unemotionally, not sentimentally. Neither of these two things can be taught by another, nor by a system invented by yourself or another.”

—J. Krishnamurti, “How To Live In This World,” The Urgency of Change

 understanding4WP@@@

 

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

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"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

—Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections







Illustrated version. )



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