Quotes About Insight

Looking for hidden meaning in these papers was the same as looking for hidden meaning in the natural world around us. If it existed, it could be activated only by the eye of the beholder.

What if I said you still hold some of the answers, too.

But you're curious, too," she said. "Why do you say that?" "You guard the light. And light sees everything.

There might be life, right under our noses. But there's always been life right under our noses – we're just too blind to see it. These fucking questions – they don't matter.

That is the tragedy of everyday life: when you are in it, you can never see your self clearly.

Enemies were teachers in disguise.

Cada día sabemos más y entendemos menos.

We are different, my friend. We are visionaries. A monkey looks up and sees and banana, and that is as far as he looks. But a visionary looks up and sees the moon.

What is imagining like? Like being a plant. What is imagining? It is not-perception: it is instead the quasi-percipient, slightly percipient, almost percipient, not yet percipient, after-percipient of perceptual mimesis. Like the rolled-back pale peach of the daylily Oakleigh, it is not sentience but sentience rolled back.

Los veíamos al pasar, haciendo como si no los viéramos, con

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other very well.

Das Nicht-Wissen darf am Wissen nicht verarmen.

Ionako ne postoji oskudica u osrednjim glavama.

Slepilo je oružje protiv vremena i prostora; naš život je jedno jedino, ogromno slepilo, izuzev ono malo stvari koje saznajemo zahval?uju?i našim si?ušnim ?ulima – si?ušnim kako po njihovoj suštini tako i po njihovom domašaju. Vladaju?i princip u kosmosu jeste slepilo. Ono omogu?ava naporedno postojanje stvari koje bi bile nemogu?e kad bi videle jedna drugu.

Ahlak?n bahts?zl??? : her ÅŸeyi daha iyi bilmesi ve bu yüzden de hiçbir ÅŸey öÄŸrenememesi.

Ich sah verwundert, wie bescheiden, ja wie kümmerlich meine Wißbegier war, verglichen mit der eines solchen Mannes (...)

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

Those who know don't talk and those who talk don't know.

His breathing was labored. His eyes were closed. But I was convinced that he was seeing everything. That he was seeing the truth in all things.

In the word question, there is a beautiful word-quest. I love that word.

Men are wrong to think that the blind cannot see. The truth is that they see, but differently. I would even say that they see something other.

I'm going to teach you the art of distinguishing between day and night. Always look at a window, and failing that look into the eyes of a man. If you see a face, any face, then you can be sure that night has succeeded day. For, believe me, night has a face." Then

You must first study the basic subjects within your own understanding...