Quotes About Insight

Experientia docet ? Experientia doesn't.

Il fatto che gli uomini non imparino molto dalla storia è la lezione più importante che la storia ci insegna

In the human fugue there are eighteen hundred million parts. The resultant noise means something perhaps to the statistician, nothing to the artist. It is only by considering one or two parts at a time that the artist can understand anything.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception

Experience teaches only the teachable

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There are things known and things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

The mental climate of our age is not favorable to visionaries.

Uno debe poder sentirse herido y trastornado; de lo contrario, no puede pensar frases realmente buenas, penetrantes como los rayos X.

To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with survival or to a human being obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large—this is an experience of inestimable value to everyone and especially to the intellectual.

What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescaline, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time. His perception is not limited to what is biologically or socially useful. A little of the knowledge belonging to Mind at Large oozes past the reducing valve of brain and ego, into his consciousness.

It begins easily for the sake of poor imbeciles like me; but it goes on, it goes on, more and more fully and subtly and abstrusely and embracingly.

He was a mine of irrelevant information and unasked-for good advice. Once started, he went on and on—boomingly.

The Diamond Sutra

Men find a new universe of thought and feeling, clearer and more comprehensible than the universe of daily experience.

being of the knower, there is a corresponding

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The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

It is true that some of the so-called secrets are significant, but as a rule they are so only to those who already know what the secret is.

Es necesaria la desgracia para socavar ciertas minas misteriosas ocultas para la inteligencia humana; es precisa la presión para hacer estallar la pólvora

Mintea omului este ca viaÈ›a:un labirint care unori scoate din cel ce se pierde în el lucruri pe care niciodat? nu È™i le-a închipuit.

Siempre nos queda el derecho de querer saber.

Mamá, ¿quieres que te grabe con el móvil y luego, antes de irte a dormir, te escuchas un rato para que entiendas por qué a veces es tan difícil ser tu hija y no puedas dormir en dos semanas?

You transferred your own unfortunate experience onto the entire humankind.