„No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it.“

— C.G. Jung

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„Against his own will, almost, Will felt himself understanding; he would have done anything, he thought, told any lie, taken any risk, to make Tessa love him.“
— Cassandra Clare
„A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching.“
— Fulton J. Sheen
„For he comes, the human child!To the waters and the wildWith a faery, hand in hand,From a world more full of weepingthan he can understand.“
— W.B. Yeats
„This context enables us to understand the passionate affection in which the poets of the New Comedy held Euripides; so that we are no longer startled by the desire of Philemon, who wished to be hanged at once so that he might meet Euripides in the underworld, so long as he could be sure that the deceased was still in full possession of his senses.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.“
— Bram Stoker