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Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed in order to achieve enlightenment.

Aleister Crowley
enlightenment understanding order

The first thing I didn't understand was my life. It's a mystery. And today I don't understand economy or politics. I don't know why politics or economy are destroying the world, but I will understand after understanding.

Alejandro Jodorowsky
understanding today world
Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there. by Aleksandar Hemon

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

Aleksandar Hemon
deep-thought understanding home
... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent a... by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
violent destruction understanding

Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
rifles government understanding
A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian. by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
car understanding men

The entire time I was following the feelings experienced by children, so the feeling of not understanding what adults say was very important to put the audience in this frequency to understand the world through his eyes.

Alex Abreu
understanding eye children

If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read newspaper clippings of someone like Muhammad Ali every day, then it might giver you some understanding of the man.

Alex Haley
understanding real men

For my victory over Capablanca I am indebted primarily to my superiority in the field of psychology. Capablanca played, relying almost exclusively on his rich intuitive talent. But for the chess struggle nowadays one needs a subtle knowledge of human nature, an understanding of the opponent's psychology.

Alexander Alekhine
psychology understanding struggle

The question you raise, 'How can such a formulation lead to computations?' doesn't bother me in the least! Throughout my whole life as a mathematician, the possibility of making explicit, elegant computations has always come out by itself, as a byproduct of a thorough conceptual understanding of what was going on. Thus I never bothered about whether what would come out would be suitable for this or that, but just tried to understand - and it always turned out that understanding was all that mattered.

Alexander Grothendieck
understanding would-be math

True peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God and will be deep and passing all understanding in the exact measure in which we live in and partake of the love of God.

Alexander MacLaren
understanding god-love trouble

Unbelief is criminal because it is a moral act, an act of the whole nature.-Belief or unbelief is a test of a man's whole spiritual condition, because it is the whole being, affections, will, conscience, as well as the understanding, which are concerned in it.

Alexander MacLaren
understanding spiritual men

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

Alexander McCall Smith
finding-yourself understanding joy
Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding. by Alexander Pope

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.

Alexander Pope
vanity understanding men
Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none ai... by Alexander Pope

Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.

Alexander Pope
understanding land fear

Use them with care, and use them with respect as to the transformations they can achieve, and you have an extraordinary research tool. Go banging about with a psychedelic drug for a Saturday night turn-on, and you can get into a really bad place, psychologically. Know what you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience. They're not addictive, and they're certainly not escapist, either, but they're exceptionally valuable tools for understanding the human mind, and how it works.

Alexander Shulgin
drug understanding night

Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.

Alexander Wang
design understanding important

Gabriel: Bethany lacks understanding about the ways of the world. She still has much to learn and that makes her vulnerable." Beth: "Do you have to make me sound like a full-time babysitting project?" Xavier: "I happen to be an experienced babysitter. I can show you my resume if you'd like.

Alexandra Adornetto
gabriel understanding sound
Some things are beyond human understanding. by Alexandra Adornetto

Some things are beyond human understanding.

Alexandra Adornetto
understanding humans

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

Alexandre Dumas
understanding philosophy memories
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