Governmental intervention and personal responsibility are not mutually exclusive issues, but they do frame a 'do it ourselves' vs. 'what are you doing for us' debate. For the black community, that's a debate that's been raging at least as far back as...
Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic heat of inspirational raptus; or the other, that the writer has followed a recipe, a kind...
Love," as he now conceived of it, involved "slow growth, many slowly formed bonds, tests by vicissitudes as well as pleasure, mutual sharing of esthetic experiences, humor, sensory things from food through music to passion, etc." Any truly lasting re...
After World War II it was decided that, in order to prevent the Germans and the French from having another war, it would be better to tie them together into one economic pact so they would invest in each other and have mutual stakes. Until now, that ...
As a therapist, I have many avenues in which to learn about DID, but I hear exactly the opposite from clients and others who are struggling to understand their own existence. When I talk to them about the need to let supportive people into their live...
Information is strength without coordination. We become a danger mostly to ourselves when we have it. Understanding is the ability to coordinate that raw information in meaningful ways. Understanding creates a certain enthusiasm. We can direct our kn...
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Are you ready? Igor: Are you sure this is how they did it? Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Yes! It's all written down in the notes! Now tie off the kites and hurry down as fast as you can! Igor: What's the hurry? Dr. Frederick...
Only he who understands is really sad.
The full person can not understand the needs of the hungry.
A mother understands what a child does not say.
It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on the world as a mass of truth, and as the word of God; they have disputed and wrangled, and have anathematized each...
You know you do not understand yourself if everyone seems to understand you.
Love does not depend on understanding; understanding depends on love.
If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
To understand, you have to love, but to gain wisdom you have to understand with love.
If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.
I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
To understand love, use the heart, not the brain. To understand the mind, use the love, not the brain.
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
