Quotes About Insight

What it takes to be thankful/cheerful always is just to realize/acknowledge/believe that all things happen for a reason and for a lesson too.

You should be attracted to someone's level of intelligence and not just his or her level of education. For, someone could graduate from the best University and yet remains clueless about the world and the society that he or she finds himself or herself. -Emeasoba George

Michael Powell knows what I am going to say even before I say it — maybe even before I have thought it – and that is very rare. You are lucky if you meet someone like that once in your life.

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

Prostia este o suferinta nedureroasa a inteligentei.

A free man is one who has discerned the inanity of all points of view; a liberated man is one who has drawn the consequences of such discernment.

A book should open old wounds, even inflict new ones. A book should be a danger.

Un poet de mare viziune (Baudelaire, Rilke, de ex.) afirm? în dou? versuri mai mult decât un filozof în toat? opera sa.

De ce un nebun vede mai mult? Fiindca nebunia-i suferinta.

Every 'I' begins with a crack and a revelation.

Nu poÅ£i cunoaÅŸte un om decât dup? nivelul la care s-a ridicat muzica în sufletul lui.

A fi sanatos inseamna a umbla in lumea aceasta legat la ochi, a nu sesiza nimic din culmile sau adancimile existentei.

One grasps incomparably more things in boredom than by labor, effort being the mortal enemy in meditation.

Mystery — a word we use to deceive others, to convince them we are "deeper" than they are.

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

Only a monster can allow himself the luxury of seeing things as they are.

Getting up with my head full of plans, I would be working, I was sure of it, all morning long. No sooner had I sat down at my desk than the odious, vile, and persuasive refrain: "What do you expect of this world?" stopped me short. And I returned, as usual, to my bed with the hope of finding some answer, of going back to sleep...

I infallibly discern a flaw in all those who are interested in the same things as myself. . . .

Have you suffered for knowledge?

Suffering opens our eyes, helps us to see what we would not have seen otherwise.

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us theirs?

Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.