Quotes About Insight

A consciência da insonsciência da vida é o mais antigo imposto à inteligência.

I have always found my awareness of suffering more painful than the suffering itself.

Se escrevo o que sinto é porque assim diminuo a febre de sentir.

Entre la vida y yo hay un cristal tenue. Por más claramente que vea y comprenda la vida, no puedo tocarla.

Believe me, if there were no intelligent people pointing out all our various human ills, humanity would not even notice them. Sensitive people make others suffer out of sympathy.

Fortunately for humanity, each man is only himself and only the genius is given the ability to be others as well.

La maggior parte delle persone si ammala per non saper esprimere quello che vede e quello che pensa.

È una regola della vita che si possa (anzi, si debba) imparare da tutti. Ci sono cose della serietà della vita che possiamo imparare da ciarlatani e da banditi, ci sono filosofie che gli stolti possono insegnarci, ci sono lezioni di fermezza e di legge che provengono dal caso e da coloro che fanno parte del caso. Tutto è in ogni cosa.

All I want from myself is to observe life. There's a glass sheet between me and it. I want the glass to be perfectly clear, so that it will in no way hinder my examination of what's behind it, but I always want the glass.

To observe oneself as one observes nature; to gaze on one's impressions as one would on a field — that is true wisdom.

Quien no ve bien una palabra , no puede ver bien un alma.

To understand, I destroyed myself.

karanl?klar? görmek, karanl?klardan ????? almakt?r.

Oggi, all'improvviso, sono giunto a una sensazione assurda e giusta. Mi sono reso conto, in un lampo, che non sono nessuno. Nessuno, assolutamente nessuno.

Për njeriun e zakonshëm me ndie domethanë me jetue, e me mendue domethanë me dijtë me jetue. Për mue, me mendue asht me jetue, e me ndie s'asht veçse ushqimi i të menduemit.

One can see only what one has already seen.

Porque eu sou do tamanho do que vejo. E não do tamanho da minha altura...

O essencial é saber ver, Saber ver sem estar a pensar, Saber ver quando se vê, E nem pensar quando se vê Nem ver quando se pensa.   Mas isso (tristes de nós que trazemos a alma vestida!), Isso exige um estudo profundo, Uma aprendizagem de desaprender E

It is a rule of life that we can and must learn from everyone. There are serious matters in life to be learned from charlatans and bandits, there are philosophies to be gleaned from fools, real lessons of fortitude that come to us by chance and from those who depend on chance. Everything contains everything else.

These people are more bearable when they describe, since in describing they forget themselves.

I've always considered violence, of any type, a particularly cock-eyed example of human stupidity.

Only one thing surprises me more than the stupidity with which most men live their lives and that is the intellegence inherent in that stupidity. [...] The wise man makes his life monotonous, for then even the tiniest accident becomes imbued with great significance.

I am a man for whom the external world is an internal reality.

Some days are like whole philosophies in themselves that suggest to us new interpretations of life, marginal notes full of the acutest criticism in the book of our universal destiny.