Quotes About Insight

It is always a mistake not to close one's eyes, whether to forgive or to look better into oneself.

To learn to love, one must first learn to see.

Unless we close our eyes we are always deceived.

He who knows himself is wise; yet have we no sooner acquired real consciousness of our being than we learn that true wisdom is a thing that lies far deeper than consciousness. The chief gain of increased consciousness is that it unveils an ever-loftier unconsciousness, on whose heights do the sources lie of the purest wisdom.

Truly they who know still know nothing if the strength of love be not theirs; for the true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind. He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.

Il y a parfois du côté de l'ombre des vérités tout aussi intéressantes que du côté de la lumière.

We know not through our intellect but through our Experience

To see the object is to plunge into it.

In order to really see the world, we must break with our familiar acceptance of it.

We only know what we are after we have lost it...Such is true nothingness, which is not nichtiges Nicht but Sein.

True philosophy entails relearning to see the world anew.

With the first sign, a halo of the possible appears, which was not contained in the first sign and which was unforeseeable from it,

Thus the highest point of truth is still only perspective.

The unconscious: excess of the perceptual over the notional.

My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.

All knowledge is established within the horizons opened up by perception.

Perception grounds everything because it shows us, so to speak, an obsessional relation with being; it is there before us, and yet it touches us from within.

Love is clairvoyant; it addresses us precisely to what is able to tear us apart.

It is true that we discover the unreflected. But the unreflected we go back to is not that which is prior to philosophy or prior to reflection. It is the unreflected which is understood and conquered by reflection.

Blind logic, logic which creates on the way.

Experience anticipates a philosophy and philosophy is but an elucidated experience.

It is absolutely necessary to go back, to return to Freud.

Through other eyes we are for ourselves fully visible.

Art stops human beings from working at their lives for a moment, and in that instant the entire truth of life is found.