Home » Quote » Fernando Pessoa » „In order to understand, I destroyed myself.“ „In order to understand, I destroyed myself.“ — Fernando Pessoa Tags:Understanding Related quotes „I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself“ — Friedrich Nietzsche „I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.“ — Paul of Tarsus „I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn“ — Robert Frost „I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.“ — Franz Kafka „To destroy the enemy it can be necessary to understand him.“ — Cassandra Clare „Cosmogony – the mythological understanding of the emergence of order. There's a chaos out of which order emerges.“ — Jordan Peterson „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“ — Carl R. Rogers