Quotes About Insight

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The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

What will they say about my poetry who never touched my blood? Que diran de mi poesia los que no tocaron mi sangre?

T]here arises an insight, which the poet must learn through other people. There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are.

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. ..A great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

There is only one way to see things, until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes

Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.

We have learned nothing in twelve thousand years. (Upon exiting the Lascaux cave, France)

Art is a lie that reveals the truth.

My hand tells me what I'm thinking.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

I do not search; I find.

El artista es un receptáculo de emociones que vienen de cualquier sitio: del cielo, de la tierra, de un pedazo de papel, de una sombra pasajera o de una telaraña.

It's right underneath your fingers, baby. That's all you have to understand—everything is right underneath your fingers.

O MAN! Offer Thy labyrinthine longings into a monotheistic bonfire consecrated to the unparalleled God. Burn desire for human affection in the fire of aspiration for GOD alone, a love solitary because omnipresent! Throw faggot of ignorance to incandesce the blaze of insight! Devour all sorrows in the sorrow for God's absence. Consume all regrets in meditative bliss!

The trivial preoccupations of daily life are not enough for man; wisdom too is a native hunger.

But divine insight is painful to worldly ears;

Wisdom is the greatest cleanser.

As can often be observed, the true stature of a great work may not at first be recognized by those of a more conventional cast of mind.

The truths—those surprising, amazing, unforeseen truths—which our descendants will discover, are even now all around us, staring us in the eyes, so to speak, and yet we do not see them. But it is not enough to say that we do not see them; we do not wish to see them; for as soon as an unexpected and unfamiliar fact appears, we try to fit it into the framework of the commonplaces of acquired knowledge, and we are indignant that anyone should dare to experiment further.

somehow when you live with somebody, when you see them every day, you don't notice that they've changed. People who hardly know them at all see the change in them before you do.

Two miles up the road to hell. No point blaming those women because they couldn't imagine it. He could hardly realize it himself, sitting there by the window, stirring his coffee, bubbling with excitement about his room, the work he intended to do there, and the new idea that was beginning to take root in his mind.