Quotes About Insight

To know your organism, you must eat it.' Not just the flies: the pupae. And not just to horrify people, but to know.

people will tell you were they have gone, they'll tell you where to go, but until you get there for yourself you never really know.

Porque - eu vos digo - temos olhos de ver e olhos de não ver, depende do estado do coração de cada um.

Stories help children sleep but also awaken adults.

la confusión conduce siempre a la certeza si uno se da el tiempo suficiente de permanecer confuso.

El camino del crecimiento personal empieza por el autoconocimiento

El día que uno llega a verse a sí mismo, toda la existencia se ilumina.

To think, analyze and invent are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence.

To see a thing one has to comprehend it. An armchair presupposes the human body, its joints and limbs; a pair of scissors, the act of cutting. What can be said of a lamp or a car? The savage cannot comprehend the missionary's Bible; the passenger does not see the same rigging as the sailors. If we really saw the world, maybe we would understand it.

How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?

I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.

Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.

Kar??l??? baÅŸka bir yerde bulunmayan hiçbir ÅŸey yoktur.

A veces en las tardes una cara Nos mira desde el fondo de un espejo; El arte debe ser como ese espejo Que nos revela nuestra propia cara. (At times in the evenings a face Looks at us out of the depths of a mirror; Art should be like that mirror Which reveals to us our own face.)

Bir ÅŸeyi görebilmek için onu anlamak gerekir. Koltuk insan bedenini, eklemlerini ve tüm organlar?n? önceden kabullenir; makas da kesme eylemini. Bir lamba ya da bir ta??t için ne demeli? Bir vahÅŸi, misyonerin Ä°ncil'ini alg?layamaz; bir gemi yolcusu halatlar? tayfalar?n gördüÄŸü gibi göremez. Evreni gerçekten görebilmiÅŸ olsayd?k belki onu anlard?k.

Lectura este un mod de a tr?i ?i a visa lumea. (Andrei Ionescu despre Borges)

Denostó con amargura a los críticos; luego, más benigno, los equiparó a esas personas, «que no disponen de metales preciosos ni tampoco de prensas de vapor, laminadores y ácidos sulfúricos para la acuñación de tesoros, pero que pueden indicar a los otros el sitio de un tesoro».

La frase quería ser ingeniosa y adiviné que no era la primera vez que la pronunciaba. Supe después que no era característica de ella, pero lo que decimos no siempre se parece a nosotros.

Todo libro tiene una línea que lo salva

como todo escritor, medía las virtudes de los otros por lo ejecutado por ellos y pedía que los otros lo midieran por lo que vislumbraba o planeaba

There is no intellectual exercise that is not ultimately pointless.

A book of genius is a book that can be read in a slightly or very different way by each generation. - The Enigma of Shakespeare

O joy of understanding, greater than the joy of imagination, greater than the joy of feeling!

T]o know means to reach the reality of existing things[.]