Quotes About Insight

Places you go in life - it opens your eyes up and you kind of understand who you are.

In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.

It takes something of a poet to apprehend and get into the depth, the lusciousness, the spiritual life of a great poem. And so we must be in some way like God in order that we may see God as He is.

I think in life we get very caught up in the minutia and, unfortunately, it generally takes some sort of tragedy in your life to put things in perspective.

To be sorry and glad together is to be perceptive to the richness of life.

I think there are a lot of older people who are moving through life the right way, and they just don't know it.

If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing.

If life ever stops inspiring us to write, it's time to stop doing what we do.

Someone once told me that the most dynamic actors are people who have stories. People who have lived life. People with experiences.

I don't necessarily know much about comedy, I don't spend a lot of time watching it. Mainly because all my life for about 50 years I've had comedy.

Schiller is an important philosopher because he shows just how integral the idea of beauty is in normal life.

Zen is about breaking out of your ideas and experiencing life and not ideas.

Inner seeing has nothing to do with physical vision; it's the perception of life directly.

C. S. Lewis, Plato, Aristotle and many more names that I could add, including Einstein's, were individuals who were able to see the innate order in life, which others perceive as chaos.

Mysticism cuts through bullshit, and it takes you right there to the experience. Everything in your life is eventually set up as a pragmatic energy flow into the light.

We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view of life.

The book, Max on Life, is really kind of a second chance to answer these questions.

You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.

I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music.

In real life, comedians aren't funny.

[The most important factor in making a good picture is] to know who or what you are photographing. It is not about photography; it should be about life.

Novels are longer than life.

Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a few unusual writers can make something great without that.

Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.