Quotes About Insight

Nietzsche had more penetrating knowledge of himself than any man who ever lived or was likely to live.

Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.

Gözlerinizi içeriye doÄŸru çevirin, kendi derinliklerinize bak?n, ilk önce kendinizi tan?y?n! O zaman neden hastalanmaya mecbur olduÄŸunuzu anlayacaks?n?z; ve belki de gelecekte hastalanman?z? önleyeceksiniz. (Freud, S. (1917a). A Difficulty in the Path of Psycho-Analysis. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud)

Rather than write about what you know, you told us, write about what you see. Assume that you know very little and that you'll never know much until you learn how to see.

Socrates to Phaedrus: "I'm a lover of learning, and trees and open country won't teach me anything.")

She saw the world as if in a vision: a dark room into which a beam of sunlight fell, with dust motes tumbling in and out, from darkness to light, and she felt that now she had finally moved into the sunbeam.

One learns least from people one lives with.

Dogs know things. They know and know and know.

What do we mean when we ask what the point is? Reflection bakes no bread, but then neither does architecture, music, art, history, or literature.

True philosophy consists in relearning to look at the world. Maurice Merleau-Ponty

We live with – and within – a gap between knowledge and wisdom. It is time philosophers, and everyone else, started to try and think about that gap. Maybe more than our personal peace of mind is at stake.

baseball is a game played by the dexterous, but only understood by the Poindexterous."9

In my mind, the most noble way to leave your mark on the world is to expand man's understanding of the world.

He needed to stop being angry, he realized. It wasn't Sir John's fault that he didn't understand the war—it was impossible to understand it unless you went there and saw it and heard it and smelt it for yourself, and even that might not be enough if you were just a visitor, a tourist able to return home when you felt you'd had enough…

La reconciliación sólo es posible sobre la base del conocimiento de la realidad

They might have recognized in their strange companion what some of today's middle-aged recognize in the young electronics visionaries... a man who, though part of their world, still had a view that was somehow larger than theirs, that he had firm sight of a future that he somehow knew was better, as well as being a future that was definably different and, most crucially, utterly unlike the world of the present.

To make something good of the future, you have to look the present in the face.

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.)

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

The extreme affliction which overtakes human beings does not create human misery, it merely reveals it.

May I disappear in order that those things that I see may become perfect in their beauty from the very fact that they are no longer things that I see.

How much time do you devote to thinking each day?

May I disappear in order that those things that I see may become perfect in their beauty from the very fact that they are no longer things I see.

En tout cas le plus grand malheur pour nous serait de périr impuissants à la fois à réussir et à comprendre.