Quotes About Insight

Freedom of expression is actually a way for people to know themselves better, and to understand themselves better. Because without it, you become a stranger to yourself.

No one who lives in error is free.

Animals see the unobstructed world with their whole eyes. But our eyes, turned back upon themselves, encircle and seek to snare the world, setting traps for freedom.

Freedom can never be comprehended, nor even can insight into it be gained.

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.

True observation begins when devoid of set patterns; freedom of expression occurs when one is beyond system.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don't dare to say.

The big picture is a nice way to think of things if you have the freedom to.

Knowledge is freedom and with freedom comes understanding.

A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.

A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.

Tact is the rare ability to keep silent while two friends are arguing, and you know both of them are wrong.

Tell me you're crazy, maybe then I'll understand.

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you.

I know a lot of funny people in a lot of funny places.

I see through your brain like I see through the water that runs down the drain.