"You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before"
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"Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites."
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"My eyes were finally opened and I understood nature. I learned at the same time to love it."
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"God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission."
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"If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you."
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"Man is to be understood only in his relationship to God."
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"Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed."
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"Creation is great, and cannot be understood."
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"Seek to understand rather than be understood."
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"we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others"
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"No single organism could be understood without observing and comprehending the entire colony."
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"The nightmare always becomes laughter, once it's understood."
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"Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood."
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"Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized."
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"Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did."
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"What is not fully understood is not possessed."
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"Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past."
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"Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom."
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"The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred."
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"It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once."
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