Famous quotes containing the word understand:
“All cultural change reduces itself to a difference of categories. All revolutions, whether in the sciences or world history, occur merely because spirit has changed its categories in order to understand and examine what belongs to it, in order to possess and grasp itself in a truer, deeper, more intimate and unified manner.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (17701831)
“But its nonsense to think hed care enough.
You mean you couldnt understand his caring.
Oh, but you see he hadnt had enough....”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and that to compress it further can only make it more obscure?”
—Samuel Beckett (19061989)
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