“My hold on the past and the future is precarious and my possession of my own time is always postponed until a stage when I may fully understand it, yet this stage can never be reached, since it would be one more moment bounded by the horizon of its future, and requiring in its turn, further developments in order to be understood.” MayMomentsWould BePastOrderTurnsMy OwnStageDevelopmentUnderstoodPossessionHorizonPrecarious Book:Phenomenology of Perception Source: Phenomenology of Perception
“Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but also you will possess a fixed base, an invariant pattern, opening upon all further developments of understanding.” UnderstandingLinesDevelopmentUnderstoodPatternsOpeningFixedBroads Book:Insight: A Study of Human Understanding Source: Insight: A Study of Human Understanding
“It is impossible to understand the economic system in which we are living if we try to interpret it as a rational scheme.It has to be understood as an awkward phase in a continuing process of historical development.” IfsTryingProcessImpossibleEconomicDevelopmentUnderstoodHistoricalRationalAwkwardPhasesSchemesContinuingEconomic Systems Author:Edwin Arlington Robinson
“Our understanding of early Christian beginnings is usually monolithic. It is much determined by the Acts of the Apostles, which pictures a straightforward development from the primitive community in Jerusalem founded on Pentecost to the world-wide mission of Paul climaxing with his arrival in Rome, the political centre of the Greco-Roman world. The Pauline epistles are understood not so much as historical sources reflecting a much more multifaceted early Christian situation fraught with tensions but as theological treatises expounding and defending the doctrine of justification by faith.” WorldChristianPoliticalUnderstandingCommunitySituationSourceDevelopmentUnderstoodHistoricalMissionsDeterminedWideDoctrineTensionRomeJustificationPrimitiveCentreReflectingApostlesStraightforwardTheologicalArrivalsJerusalemPentecostJustification By Faith Author:Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
“Remember, Donald [Trump] started his career back in 1973 being sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination because he would not rent apartments in one of his developments to African-Americans, and he made sure that the people who worked for him understood that was the policy. He actually was sued twice by the Justice Department.” PeopleMadeRememberJusticeCareersPolicyDevelopmentTrumpUnderstoodDiscriminationAfrican AmericanDepartmentApartmentRacial Discrimination Author:Hillary Clinton
“Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.” IfsViewsDevelopmentUnderstoodEqualityPoint Of ViewEmpowering WomenSisterhood Author:Jenny Shipley
“The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).” MeanHas BeensDreamNextLeftGivenUnderstandingSidesChangeStageFashionFrontsDevelopmentUnderstoodEuropeSeasonsDearDesignerHegel Author:Milan Kundera