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The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)
“I wanted to understand.”
God Is An Iron (1977)
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“I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”
Helen Keller
(1880–1968) American author and political activist
Quoted in Henry More: The Rational Theology of a Cambridge Plattonist (1962) by Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, page 100.
“I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.”
Katherine Mansfield
(1888–1923) New Zealand author
Journal entry (14 October 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)
Context: By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with what I love — the earth and the wonders thereof — the sea — the sun, all that we mean when we speak of the external world. I want to enter into it, to be part of it, to live in it, to learn from it, to lose all that is superficial and acquired in me and to become a conscious, direct human being. I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.
“I want to live happily in a world I don't understand.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 4
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
“I don't understand why I wanted to kill you.”
Chaim Potok
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The Chosen
Danny Saunders to Reuven Malter
The Chosen (1967)
Howard Gardner
(1943) American developmental psychologist
Howard Gardner (1983), "Multiple approaches to understanding," in: Charles M. Reigeluth (ed.) Instructional-design Theories and Models: A new paradigm of ..., Volume 2. p. 69-90
Mauno Koivisto
(1923–2017) President of Finland
Koivisto in an interview on a Russian radio channel on 26 June 2002. Presidentti Koiviston vierailu Moskovaan esillä venäläismediassa http://formin.finland.fi/public/?contentid=57319&contentlan=1&culture=fi-FI Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. 3 July 2002. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
Katherine Mansfield
(1888–1923) New Zealand author
Entry in her journal (10 October 1922) which she tore out to send to John Middleton Murry, before changing her mind. This later became the last published entry in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927) ed. J. Middleton Murry
Context: By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with what I love — the earth and the wonders thereof — the sea — the sun. All that we mean when we speak of the external world. A want to enter into it, to be part of it, to live in it, to learn from it, to lose all that is superficial and acquired in me and to become a conscious direct human being. I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming so that I may be (and here I have stopped and waited and waited and it’s no good — there’s only one phrase that will do) a child of the sun. About helping others, about carrying a light and so on, it seems false to say a single word. Let it be at that. A child of the sun.