Quotes About Insight

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves. But what if these others belong to a different species and inhabit a radically alien universe? For example, how can the sane get to know what it actually feels like to be mad?

You read and you're pierced. That's one of the things I try to teach my students-how to write piercingly.

Porque los detalles, como todos sabemos, conducen a la virtud y la felicidad, en tanto que las generalidades son intelectualmente males necesarios.

62,400 repetitions make one truth.

Liberation from prevailing conventions of thought, feeling and behaviour is accomplished most effectively by the practice of disinterested virtues and through direct insight into the real nature of ultimate reality. (Such insight is a gift, inherent in the individual; but, though inherent, it can not manifest itself completely except where certain conditions are fulfilled. The principle pre-condition of insight is, precisely, the practice of disinterested virtues.)

Glad to hear what? asked Jenny, emerging suddenly from her private interior world like a cuckoo from a clock. She received an explanation, smiled, nodded, cuckooed at last I see, and popped back, clapping shut the door behind her.

You can't learn a science unless you know what it's all about.

You'll have a better understanding of what was actually done if you start by knowing what had to be done - what always and everywhere has to be done by anyone who has a clear idea about what's what.

Things somehow seem more real and vivid when one can apply somebody else's ready-made phrase about them.

Everything's incredible, if you can skin off the crust of obviousness our habits put on it. Every object and event contains within itself an infinity of depths within depths.

Knowledge is always a function of being.

Avem intotdeauna tendinta sa atribuim propriile noastre defecte si celorlalti.

Other people can't make you see with their eyes. At the best they can only encourage you to use your own.

Life is so constituted that we can make effective use of things whose nature we do not understand.

To know a person's character you must at least have talked with him, and unless you are gifted with remarkable intuitive insight you are not likely to know much about him unless you have seen him living and acting over a considerable period of time.

Las palabras pueden ser como los rayos X si se emplean adecuadamente: pasan a través de todo. Las lees y te traspasan. Ésta es una de las cosas que intento enseñar a mis alumnos: a escribir de manera penetrante.

Cómo puede el cuerdo saber lo que realmente se siente cuando se está loco?

The meditative eye can look through any single object and see, as through a window, the entire cosmos.

What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.

Quizá la más grande lección de la historia es que nadie aprendió las lecciones de la historia

Sixty-two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth.

ÇoÄŸumuzun sadece meskalin etkisi alt?nda gördüÄŸünü her zaman görme yetisi sanatç?ya doÄŸuÅŸtan verilmiÅŸtir. Onun alg?s? biyolojik ve toplumsal olarak yararl? olanla s?n?rl? deÄŸildir. Büyük bilince ait bilginin biraz? beyin ve egonun indirgeme filtresinden s?zar ve sanatç?n?n bilincine akar.

Wisdom never puts enmity anywhere

Las palabras pueden ser como los rayos X, si se emplean adecuadamente: pasan a través de todo.