“If I let myself really understand another person, I might be changed by that understanding. And we all fear change. So as I say, it is not an easy thing to permit oneself to understand an individual”
Source: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
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“I hope they understand that I really understand
That they don't understand”
-GHOST!
Music
The essence of everything., Dortmund Germany October 1, 1978, published by the DLM in The Golden Age No 51, February 1979
1970s
“If I understand Change, I shall make no great mistake in Life”
“When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.”
“Define your terms, you will permit me again to say, or we shall never understand one another.”
Définissez les termes, vous dis-je, ou jamais nous ne nous entendrons.
"Miracles" http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/voltaire-the-works-of-voltaire-vol-vi-philosophical-dictionary-part-4 (1764)
Citas, Dictionnaire philosophique (1764)
“I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.”
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.
“Understand me who can, for I understand myself.”
Canzone 105, st. 2
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Life
“I am not very clever about Americanisms — and I understand they change very quickly.”
A Murder is Announced (1950)
“Times when I understand myself a little, I understand others less.”
Las veces que me comprendo un poco, comprendo menos a los demás.
Voces (1943)