To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.


Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel; Tr., with an Introduction and Notes (ed. 1893)

Henri-Frédéric Amiel Quotes

To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.

To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.

To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.

To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.