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Thomas Carlyle:Life is a succession of lessons


Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
by Thomas Carlyle


Remy De Gourmont:If the secret of being a bore


If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be—not understood, but divined.
by Remy De Gourmont


Johann Von Goethe:Life can only be understood


Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
by Johann Von Goethe


Thomas Browne:Much that we call evil is really


Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.
by Thomas Browne


Thomas Mann:This was love at first sight, love


This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected-in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
by Thomas Mann


Sigmund Freud:Obviously one must hold oneself


Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.
by Sigmund Freud


Thomas Aquinas:Reasoning is compared to


Reasoning is compared to understanding as movement is to rest, or acquisition to possession.... Since movement always proceeds from something immovable, and ends in something at rest, hence it is that human reasoning, in the order of inquiry and discovery, proceeds from certain things absolutely understood—namely, the first principles; and, again, in the order of judgment, returns by analysis to first principles, in the light of which it examines what it has found. Now it is clear that rest and movement are not to be referred to different powers, but to one and the same.
by Thomas Aquinas


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