Quotes About Insight

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.

Some things need to be believed to be seen.

Religion asks you to learn from the experience of others. Spirituality urges you to seek your own.

Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.

Maybe it wasn't anything remotely to do with religion, mysticism or metaphilosophy after all; maybe it was more banal; maybe it was just...accounting.

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.

Religion is very enlightening - to those who don't understand it.

My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question.

What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present.

Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.

Anthroposophie is not a religion but a tool for understanding of religions.

The genius of a man capable of explaining religion seems to me to be of a higher order than that of a founder of religion. And that is the glory to which I aspire.

Religion is a light in the fog.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Vision is the end of religion.

Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious but who understands the non-existent.

You may travel the whole world, but you'll not find true religion anywhere. Whatever there is, it is in your own mind.

Organised religion generally gets in the way of spiritual experience.

Sometimes it's about knowing people, all of the time, it's about knowing God!

TeachingOne hour's teaching is better than a whole night of prayer.

Knowledge, understanding, and wisdom is naught to the man who is incapable of applying it.

The sight of God in woman is the most perfect of all." Ibn Arabi.