understanding Quotes

"I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings." -from the Fox-"

"You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it."

"Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm... ...

“If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.”

“We cannot understand what happens in the universe. What is glorious in it is united with what is full of horror. What is full of meaning is united to what is senseless. The spirit of the universe is at once... ...

“The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.”

“We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time, through some experience that we have of our companion, or through some remark... ...

“Awakening of Western thought will not be complete until that thought steps outside itself and comes to an understanding with the search for a world-view as this manifests itself in the thought of mankind as a whole.”

“From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.”

“As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.”