Quotes About Insight

People nowadays are so absolutely superficial that they don't understand the philosophy of the superficial.

The supreme vice is shallowness. Whatever is realised is right.

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.  They are so far away from us that only the poet can understand them.

He had that rarest of all things, common sense.

I don't see anybody here to-night whom one could possibly call a serious purpose.

To become the spectator of one's own life, as Harry says, is to escape the suffering of life. I

I love talking about nothing, father.  It is the only thing I know anything about. lord

And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

Every experience is of value.

He says things that annoy me. He gives me good advice.

É o espectador, e não a vida, que a arte, na verdade, espelha.

Suddenly we find that we are no longer the actors, but the spectators

The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself. They seem in front of me. Life has revealed to them her latest wonder.

Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.

Existen venenos tan sutiles que para conocer sus propiedades hay que probarlos. Existen enfermedades tan extrañas que uno tiene que sufrirlas para comprender su esencia

I wrote when I did not know life. Now that I know life, I have no more to write.

El vicio supremo es la superficialidad.

have a wonderful instinct about things.  They can discover everything except the obvious.

I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me before.

If you want to know where a person is coming from, you need to read this material, not tear it up! You got to see what makes him think what he thinks! -Ann Atwater

Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.

At the moment the eyes of the body closed, the eyes of the mind were opened.