You don’t have to understand the world. You just have to find your own way around in it.
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To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Why is it nobody understands me, and everybody likes me?
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
If I want to understand an individual human being, I must lay aside all scientific knowledge of the average man and discard all theories in order to adopt a completely new and unprejudiced attitude. I can only approach the task of understanding with a free and open mind, whereas knowledge of man, or insight into human character, presupposes all sorts of knowledge about mankind in general.
And it is only after seeing man as his unconscious, revealed by his dreams, presents him to us that we shall understand him fully. For as Freud said to Putnam: “We are what we are because we have been what we have been.
When you want to understand something you stand in front of it, alone, without help: all the past in the world is of no use.
