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7544 | Many people imagine that to experience is to understand [Goethe] |
Full Idea: There are many people who imagine that what they experience they also understand. | |
From: Wolfgang von Goethe (Maxims and Reflections [1825], 889) | |
A reaction: This should be posted over the arrivals gate of every international airport, for returning holiday-makers. It seems to place Goethe on the rationalist side of the debate with empiricism. It is hard to explain 'understanding' in Humean terms. |