Quotes About Insight

We usually see things by eye... and feel the rest by imagination, illusion or instinct.

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before.

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn't know you knew.

Books are like eggs. Somethings you have to crack them open to get anything out.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke and that the joke is oneself.

Dangerous things, books." "Look what it did to your brain.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Finally you get to the age when a book's power to make you think becomes the first thing you notice about it.

Men ought to treat with caution those that clarify the deed by seeing deep into the thought that lies behind it.

Because the trivial concerns oneself, one fails to see it might be boring.

a two-word formulation for the miraculous ability of pundits to deduce that a past event had been inevitable: "retrospective clairvoyance.

Tacitus, "qui abrégeoit tout parce qu'il voyoit tout." ("He abridged everything because he saw everything." Perfect.)

His advocacy and understanding of Victor Hugo led to a close friendship,

Common sense and sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous

Writing only leads to more writing.

Desde hace algún tiempo, mis ojos siempre dan la impresión de saber algo que yo no sé.

Le monde m'est nouveau à mon réveil, chaque matin.

Science is but the statement of truth found out.

the problem here is that in the 20th century we have lost the relationship between imagination and fact.