Quotes About Insight

Milena birisi yüzünüzü iki elinin aras?na s?k??t?r?p , doÄŸruca gözlerinizin içine bakmal? ki bu kiÅŸinin gözlerinde kendinizi gördükten sonra bir daha yazd???n?z ÅŸeyleri akl?n?zadan bile geçiremeyeceksiniz.

Nem todos podem ver a verdade, mas podem sê-la.

It was very learned, but it didn't actually say anything.

Die Erklärung wird mir auch deshalb schwer werden, weil ich hier alles in sovielen Tagen und Nächten durchdacht und durchgraben habe, daß selbst mich jetzt der Anblick schon verwirrt.

So now you know what else existed in the world outside of you, before you knew only about yourself!

Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one's own castle.

Und er stand vollkommen frei und warf die Beine. Er strahlte vor Einsicht.

I do not see the world at all; I invent it.

Zijn hersens kenden fijnere nuances dan moderne hersens kunnen bevatten.

One ought, Milena, to take your face in both hands and look you square in the eye, so that you would see yourself in the eyes of the other person, then you could not even think the kinds of things you wrote there.

He found the Archimedean point, but he used it against himself; it seems that he was permitted to find it only under this condition

Acho que devemos ler apenas os tipos de livros que nos ferem ou esfaqueiam. Se o livro que estamos lendo não nos acorda com um golpe na cabeça, para que estamos lendo?

Can't you see two inches in front of your nose?

In no case was there anything to show that he was afflicted with blindness and this in spite of the fact that he exercised undue economy in the spacing of lines.

El aislamiento es una forma de conocernos a nosotros mismos.

God, how much more profitable it would be if the Thinker could learn from the Drunk!

Bir elman?n birbirinden farkl? görünümleri olabilir: Masan?n üstündeki elmay? bir an olsun görebilmek için boynunu uzatan çocuÄŸun görüÅŸü ve bir de, elmay? al?p yan?ndaki arkada??na rahatça veren evin efendisinin görüÅŸü.

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, What are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to.

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it

Por más que animes tanto como quieras, a alguien que tiene los ojos vendados, a mirar a través de su venda, no verá jamás. No empezará a ver más hasta que se quite la venda. Es ayuda lo que Barnabás necesita, no ánimos.

Qué saben los jóvenes? ¡No lo han sufrido! (p. 32)

Knowledge must seep into your blood, into your self, not just into your head, you must live it.

Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works.