Quotes About Insight

Not the book needs so much to be the complete thing, but the reader of the book does.

Chanter of Personality, outlining what is yet to be, I project the history of the future.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the 'state of emergency' in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history that is in keeping with this insight.

As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the collector comprehend.

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

In the fields with which we are concerned, knowledge comes only in flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterward.

Es bringt uns nämlich nicht weiter, die rätselhafte Seite am Rätselhaften pathetisch oder fanatisch zu unterstreichen; vielmehr durchdringen wir das Geheimnis nur in dem Grade, als wir es im Alltäglichen wiederfinden, kraft einer dialektischen Optik, die das Alltägliche als undurchdringlich, das Undurchdringliche als alltäglich erkennt...

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

To read what was never written.' Such reading is the most ancient: reading before all languages, from the entrails, the stars, or dances. Later the mediating link of a new kind of reading, of runes and hieroglyphs, came into use.

Ser feliz significa poder tomar conciencia de uno mismo sin llevarse un susto.

Instead of giving his own opinion, a great critic enables others to form their opinion on the basis of his critical analysis.

That's the thing people can't see when they're explaining to your butt what's going on and how you messing up. They can't see that you knew it long before they did.

once i began to read I began to exist

Simplicity isn't just a visual style. It's not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of the complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep.

I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis," he later said.

Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius. His imaginative leaps were instinctive, unexpected, and at times magical. He was, indeed, an example of what the mathematician Mark Kac called a magician genius, someone whose insights come out of the blue and require intuition more than mere mental processing power. Like a pathfinder, he could absorb information, sniff the winds, and sense what lay ahead.

Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion.

Knowledge, he realized, "was obtained rather by the use of the ear than of the tongue.

Customers don't know what they want until we've shown them.

The thing that Von Neumann had, which I've noticed that other geniuses have, is the ability to pick out, in a particular problem, the one crucial thing that's important.

He has a second-rate mind but a first-rate intuition about people," Kissinger once said of Rockefeller. "I have a first-rate mind but a third-rate intuition about people.

People don't know what they want until you show it to them.

intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.