Comprendre et ne pas juger
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"Comprendre et ne pas juger" is a dictum by Georges Simenon denoting "understanding, not judging."
In En cas de malheur (1956) by Simenon writes:
- "Je n'ai jamais pris la vie au tragique. Je m'en défends encore. Je cherche à rester objectif, à me juger et à juger les autres froidement. Je cherche surtout à comprendre."
The dictum's source is also attributed to an epistolary exchange between Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre in which Lucien Febvre concluded that "L'histoire ce n'est pas juger, c'est comprendre — et faire comprendre", "history is not judging, it is understanding - and making understand."
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English
"Understand, do not judge"
- "... and that is why Čapek, like Simenon, never condemns. Comprendre, pas juger, is the MO of the French writer; understand, not judge, is the motto of the Czech ..." From Lowbrow to Nobrow (2005) by Peter Swirski
- "Maigret's motto was comprendre et ne pas juger ('Understand, don't condemn'). ... depict a very different world – one in which justice plays little part and men ... to think that if Jules Maigret believed in something, then surely Simenon did too." --Crime Uncovered: Detective (2015) by Barry Forshaw
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Dutch
"Begrijpen, niet oordelen"
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See also
- Understand
- Judge
- Condemn
- I have labored carefully not to mock, lament, or execrate the actions of men; I have labored to understand them by Spinoza
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