Quotes About Insight

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.

It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable

reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather, taking part in a well-conducted dialogue in which such minds reveal to us only the best of their thoughts

One should never judge anything unless it is known.

Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation

the perusal of all excellent books is, as it were, to interview with the noblest men of past ages, who have written them.

it appears to me that I have discovered many truths more useful and more important than all I had before learned, or even had expected to learn.

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

they who make pretensions to philosophy are often less wise and reasonable than others who never applied themselves to the study

We should totally focus the vision of natural intelligence on the smallest and easiest things, and we should dwell on them for a long time, so long, until we have become accustomed to intuiting the truth distinctly and perspicuously.

Je donnerais tout ce que je sais pour la moitié de ce que je ne sais pas.

Viver sem filosofia é exatamente como ter os olhos fechados sem nunca procurar abri-los.

Leer buenos libros es como conversar con las mejores mentes del pasado.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.

Les mots qui vont surgir savent de nous ce que nous ignorons d'eux.

La lucidité est la blessure la plus rapprochée du soleil.

Si l'homme parfois ne fermait pas souverainement les yeux, il finirait par ne plus voir ce qui vaut d'être regardé.

La poésie est de toutes les eaux claires celle qui s'attarde le moins aux reflets de ses ponts

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.

The more one approaches madness, the more one equally approaches the truth, and if one does not fall into the former, one must end up necessarily in the latter.

The world's myths do not reveal a way to interpret the Gospels, but exactly the reverse: the Gospels reveal to us the way to interpret myth.

Shuf shughlek, yâ khawaga!

Du reste, il est à remarquer que les philosophes disent souvent des choses beaucoup plus justes quand ils argumentent contre d'autres philosophes que quand ils en viennent à exposer leurs propres vues, et chacun voyant généralement assez bien les défauts des autres, ils se détruisent en quelque sorte mutuellement