Understanding (n.) that grasps in a moment what it should stand before in long awe is more childish than the child: there are things it does not see which even a child sees, and they are the most important.
Understanding (n.) everything — to grow angry at nothing, love nothing, understand everything: how soft and pliable it makes one.
Understanding (n.) means merely being able to express something new in the language of something old and familiar.
Understanding (n.) is an ending; our very will to knowledge is a symptom of tremendous decadence.
Understanding (n.) is not a sign of the highest force but of thorough fatigue — and moralisation itself is a decadence.
Understanding (n.) is an ending: our will even to knowledge, man and history seeing through themselves, is a symptom of tremendous decadence.
Understanding (n.) in naive terms just means being able to express something new in the language of something old and familiar.