Quotes About Insight

The mass crushes out the insight and reflection that are still possible with the individual, and this necessarily leads to doctrinaire and authoritarian tyranny if ever the constitutional State should succumb to a fit of weakness.

try to plant the results of my experience in the soil of reality;

To return to the question of my technique, I ask myself to what extent I am indebted to Freud. In any case I learned it from Freud's method of free association, and I regard my technique as a further development of this method.

Thus, my friends, you learn much about the world, and through it about yourself, by what I say to you here. But you have not learned anything about your mysteries in this way; indeed, your way is darker than before, since my example will stand obstructively in your path. You may follow me, not on my way, but on yours.

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

One can explain and know only if one has reduced intuitions to an exact knowledge of facts and their logical connections.

The important thing is what he talks about, not whether he agrees with it or not.

I early arrived at the insight that when no answer comes from within to the problems and complexities of life, they ultimately mean very little.

concentrating on those classics which school, with its needlessly laborious explanations of the obvious, had not spoiled for me.

Man is never helped in his suffering by what he thinks for himself, but only by revelations of a wisdom greater than his own. It is this which lifts him out of his distress.

Whether the untamed, extravagant, disproportionate energy shows itself in sensuality—in abjectissimo loco—or in an overestimation and deification of the most highly developed function, it is at bottom the same: barbarism. But naturally one has no insight into this so long as one is still hypnotized by the object of the deed and ignores how it is done.

But just as conscious contents can vanish into the unconscious, new contents, which have never yet been conscious, can arise from it.

furnished with the dimmest light, never enough to illuminate the darkness in which they grope.

become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

But somewhere and at some time there must have been people who sought the truth as I was doing

We find . . . in everyday life, where dilemmas are sometimes solved by the most surprising new propositions; many artists, philosophers, and even scientists owe some of their best ideas to inspirations . . . from the unconscious.

At the highest level of this type of initiatory activity, far from those tricks-of-the-trade by which magic so frequently replaces true spiritual insight, we find the Hindu master yogis. In their trance states they go far beyond the normal categories of thought.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

We're trivial pissants in the big scheme of things, fleas, fly shit in the pepper.

placing her because of the way she said "my boys" as the heart and soul of the school, the Woman Who Knew Everybody And Everything. He always felt blessed when he met up with such women because they were generally the key to unlocking the secret doors to an institution.

Hide in plain sight, that was the way out here. He would learn something from that.

Okay . . . Joe quickly figured

not actually shades of green. They had discussed the fact

whenever there is a sunset in front of you, turn around and start shooting what's behind you.