Jurgen Habermas Quotes

The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.

You must find your treasure in order to make sense of everything you discovered on the path.

Explanations comfort us by giving the impression that there is an order in things.

Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to what is. Neither of them can tolerate capricious subjectivity because both are subject to their criteria of truth. Both require precision, order, and discipline because no comprehensible statement can be made without these. Both accept the sensory world as what the Middle Ages called signatura regrum, the signature of things, but in quite different ways.

The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

In order to know somebody through their words, I mean, it has to be an, it has to be a letter, you know? It has to be a long e-mail. It has to be a five-page hand-written letter, you know, it has to be overwhelming and messy and sloppy as humans are.

Results only come to those who master the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, of letting go as a person in order that the immanent and transcendent unknown quantity may take hold. We cannot make ourselves understand; the most we can do is to foster a state of mind in which understanding may come to us.

We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.

You need to understand things in order to invent beyond them.

I have learned never to judge any of the characters that I portay. Sometimes that is difficult to do because as a human being we tend to make judgements when we find out information about people and situations. In order to bring a character to life, though, I find that I cannot judge her or I won't be true to her.

In order to understand, I destroyed myself.

In order to have peace, we must first have trust.

Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.

We are not apt to think of the importance of events as they transpire with us, but we feel the importance of them afterwards.

Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in order to build cool devices.

It is one of Miss Manners's great discoveries that one needn't contradict others in order to set them straight.

How could I have thought that I needed to cure myself in order to fit into the 'real' world? I didn't need curing, and the world didn't, either; the only thing that did need curing was my understanding of my place in it. Without that understanding - without a sense of belonging to the real world - it was impossible to thrive in an imagined one.

Acquaintance softens prejudice.

A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.

In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity made up of people who, like himself, do not understand what they are.

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.

We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.

But actually a code is a language for translating one thing into another. And mathematics is the language of science. My big thesis is that although the world looks messy and chaotic, if you translate it into the world of numbers and shapes, patterns emerge and you start to understand why things are the way they are.

We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos.