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“The youth of today will never have the determination and the understanding of yesteryear s youth.”

— Javier Enríquez Serralde, Share via Whatsapp

“Except you be fed with the grapes of Love you shall no be filled with the wine of Understanding.”

— Mikhail Naimy, The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark, Share via Whatsapp

“Kant finds that the ‘virtue of the heart’ is central and emphasizes the role of the understanding and concepts at the expense of inclinations and feelings, Gellert argues that the understanding and feeling coincide with one another. It is our task to cultivate our feelings so that they become true moral feelings.”

— Manfred Kuehn, Share via Whatsapp

“My rather arrogant attitude deludes me into believing that my ability to understand something is the criteria for its legitimacy. And if there’s one thing in my life that I don’t understand yet I allow to be legitimate, thinking this way would most certainly be it.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough, Share via Whatsapp

“To create something does not mean to see through to its depths; we do not drain our children to the dregs by begetting them, but set them loose in the world like wild dogs, beyond our control and often beyond our knowledge.”

— Graham Harman, Towards Speculative Realism: Essays and Lectures, Share via Whatsapp

“Don t try to understand things and you won t feel confused.”

— Marty Rubin, Share via Whatsapp

“Colonialism had its way with making us believe we were inadequate, if we mimicked the lifestyle and values it upheld, we were embraced with open arms. - “Vindication Across Time”

— Mala Naidoo, Vindication Across Time, Share via Whatsapp

“Because of their lust for authority men are in constant turmoil. Those in authority are ever fighting to maintain it. Those out of authority are ever struggling to snatch it from the hands of those who hold it. While Man, the God in swaddling-bands, is trampled under foot and hoof and left on the field of battle unnoticed, unattended and unsolved. So furious is the fight, and so blood crazed the fighters that none, alas, would stop to lift the painted mask off the face of the spurious bride and expose her monstrous ugliness to all. Believe, O monks, that no authority is worth the flutter of an eyelash, except the authority of Holy Understanding which is priceless. For that no sacrifice is great. Attain it once, and you shall hold it to the end of Time. And it shall charge your words with more power than all the armies of the world can ever command; and it shall bless your deeds with more beneficence than all the world authorities combined can ever dream of bringing to the world.”

— Mikhail Naimy, The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark, Share via Whatsapp

“Seek no authority over the lives of men; of that the Omniwill is master. Nor seek authority over the goods of men; for men are chained so much to their goods as to their lives, and they distrust and hate the meddlers with their chains. But seek a way into the hearts of men through Love and Understanding; for once installed therein you can and better work to loose men of their chains. For love will guide your hand, while Understanding holds the lantern.”

— Mikhail Naimy, The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark, Share via Whatsapp

“He has to come to it on his own.”

— Justin Cronin, The Passage, Share via Whatsapp

“Literature is and should continue to be a vehicle that dispels otherness or the outsider”

— Mala Naidoo, Share via Whatsapp

“Cry Havoc! , and let slip the dogs of war. No rules, No mercy. Fight to kill until you held the battlefield”

— Marion G. Harmon, Ronin Games, Share via Whatsapp

“The thought of being in love Is blinding The thought that I d found the one Filled me with so much confusion And I ve been struggling To find my way out of this”

— r. h. Sin, Share via Whatsapp

“Be warned: If you allow yourself to see dignity in someone, you have doomed yourself to wanting to understand and help whoever it is. If you see dignity in anything, in fact--it doesn t have to be human--you will still want to understand it and help it. Many people are now seeing dignity in the lower animals and the plant world and waterfalls and deserts--and even in the entire planet and its atmosphere. And now they are helpless not to want to understand and help those things. Poor souls!”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage, Share via Whatsapp

“Because the creator of all the worlds cannot be a participant in worldly matters. Gods are the detached operators of the contents of this Universe- the Brahmand; which consists of twenty Lokas: Six are above the Prithivi, the mother Earth and they ago by the name - Jan, Tap, Satyam, Mah, Swa, Bhuv. A total of seven Lokas, including our earth - Prithivi Lok. Then there are fourteen Lokas below the Earth, of which seven are the Naraks, meaning hells and they go by the name of; Aveech, Mahakal, Ambrish, Rorav, Maharorav, Mahasutra and Andhatamisr. Above them are the seven Patal Lokas below the earth namely- Mahatal, Rasatal, Atal, Sutal, Vital, Talatal and the Patal.”

— Aporva Kala, The Chronicle of Sapta Sindhu, Share via Whatsapp

“We all have a limited imagination when it comes to understanding people radically different from ourselves.”

— Marty Rubin, Share via Whatsapp

“They never understood what Harry Potter what about. Or maybe they didn t want to understand.”

— Asmara W.M, Share via Whatsapp