Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Understanding
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Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.
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If you know the why, you can live any how.
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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?
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Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
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When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.
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The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.
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We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.
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To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
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One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us.
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If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants
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