Only one man ever understood me, and he didn’t understand me.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
Do not weep. Do not wax indignant. Understand.
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
If a lion could speak, we could not understand him.
Philosophy cannot and should not give us an account of faith, but should understand itself and know just what it has indeed to offer, without taking anything away, least of all cheating people out of something by making them think it is nothing.
The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.
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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.