Quotes About Insight

Experience is a keen teacher;

Poets, prophets and reformers are all picture-makers -- and this ability is the secret of their power and of their achievements. They see what ought to be by the reflection of what is, and endeavor to remove the contradiction

Beware of a Yankee when he is feeding

But what was even worse was not understanding the thought behind the words.

Es extremadamente listo, considerando lo estúpido que es.

Basic insight regarding the nature of decadence: it's supposed causes are its consequences.

Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole being. It means looking beyond the labels of things and discovering the remarkable world around you.

Parfois un cigar est seulement un cigar comme dit Freud, mais aussi Clinton !

And when you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

My genius is in my nostrils.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.

Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.

Ultimately no one can hear in things?books included?more than he already knows. If you have no access to something from experience, you will have no ear for it.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

Only ideas won by walking have any value.

Dostoevsky,the only psychologist from whom I've anything to learn.

Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them.

And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

He who knows the reader, does nothing for the reader.