Quotes About Insight

All I wanted was humor and wisdom.

If a person continues to see only giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with, we cease to see.

Lillian was reminded of the Talmudic words: We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Archaeologists of the soul never return empty-handed.

Laughter and tears are not separate experiences, with intervals of rest: they rush out together and it is like walking with a sword between your legs.

You can only see in others what your nature allows you to see. The range of your vision depends on the extent of the personal development. The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic; I never generalize, intellectualize. I see, I hear, I feel. These are my primitive instruments of discovery.

I am not always just living, just following all my fantasies; I come up for air, for understanding.

Fools compare... the wise enjoy.

It shows that a woman is not really a critic but a penetrator. She does not judge, she understands.

Wir sehen die Dinge nicht, wie sie sind. Wie sehen sie, wie wir sind.

I never saw as clearly as with Artaud what the meaning of poetry is: it is an abstraction, to match allegorical patterns.

You . . . make me laugh talking about Casanova. You don't know yet what men are like, pardon.

he preserves, collects what will explode later in his work.

Yesterday you said there were flaws in my goodness. Won't you tell me what they are so that I may accentuate them? In that knowledge lies my salvation. Save me from goodness, Henry.

Find the most salient, the most revelatory features of the story and expand them to the utmost, wring the last drop of juice from them.

É monstruoso dizer-se que o artista não serve a humanidade. Ele foi os olhos, os ouvidos, a voz da humanidade. Sempre foi o transcendentalista que passava a raios X os nossos verdadeiros estados de alma.

I always try to soften what happened by understanding.

A writer could completely baffle a psychologist." A writer and a woman, a woman with imagination, too, and a psychologist half blinded. Oh yea?

We carefully observe and watch the happenings of the entire world without realizing they are projections of our inner selves.

Comienzo a ver las cosas con mayor claridad. Ahora sé por qué el primer día no me fiaba de él. Sus acciones se hallan desprovistas de sentimiento y de imaginación. Motivadas por meros hábitos de vida, de aprehensión y de análisis. Es un saltamontes. Ahora ha saltado a mi vida. Mi sensación de repugnancia se intensifica.

Every line is pregnant with meaning and however much the meaning is ransacked, the riddle will remain because only you can explain it, and this riddle is your last triumph—you will never reveal it.

No one but a woman in love ever sees the maximum of men's greatness.

Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.