Quotes About Insight

When I read philosophy or neuroscience papers about consciousness, I don't get the sense we're any closer to understanding it than we were 50 years ago.

If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

For most people the prohibitions are a good thing. But If you are able to maintain very powerful states of mind, then you'll find yourself in everything you see.

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

It's living - a broad spectrum of living - that teaches you how to live, not philosophy. Philosophy teaches you how to think.

History teaches everything, even the future.

One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy.

The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.

Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

Das Ganze der Erfahrung gleicht einer Geheimschrift und die Philosophie der Entzifferung derselben. The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it.

Mrs. Wiggs was a philosopher, and the sum and substance of her philosophy lay in keeping the dust off her rose-colored spectacles.

Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.

Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.

It's ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can't see nothing." – Snipes (185)

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

Tell me something only you know and make a new friend.

The best of humanity is philosophy.

I'm a slumdog philosopher.

Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood.