Quotes About Insight

Where causation is concerned, a grain of wise subjectivity tells us more about the real world than any amount of objectivity.

you are smarter than your data. Data do not understand causes and effects; humans do.

laughter emerges in the realization that all along the original was derived.

a phenomenon that gave rise to my first critical insight into the subtle ruse of power: the prevailing law threatened one with trouble, all to keep one out of trouble. Hence, I concluded that trouble is inevitable and the task, how best to make it, what best way to be in it.

sight was so

crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.

You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves.

People who talk less frequently notice more.

Most people don't even understand the present. Why should they understand glimpses of the future?

Kohtalokas luonteenpuute. Kasvot joita voi lukea kuin avointa kirjaa.

I'm convinced that there is something we once knew which has been lost to us in the evolutionary process. Sometimes we get glimpses of it." Collected in: Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature by Lorraine Anderson

Intuition intelligently informs patience. It'll convey when to have it and if something is worth working on or waiting for.

A mad person sees what isn't there; A visionary sees what isn't there yet

There comes a time when we aren't allowed not to know.

Chega um tempo em que não nos é permitido não saber.

You're a watcher, aren't you?" Peter said. "I can tell. You watch and listen. But you know what I'm betting. The thing you can't see so clear is yourself." I was startled. Here I was, trying to come up with something to say about the weather, and he said something real. "What do you mean?" I asked. "You don't walk like a girl who knows how pretty she is, for one thing. That's a crying shame.

revelations that were unfolding.

The impact of the sense of vision on philosophy is well summed up by Peter Sloterdijk: 'The eyes are the organic prototype of philosophy. Their enigma is that they not only can see but are also able to see themselves seeing.

In the desert, I had discovered the West of my imagination, my childhood canyon infinitely magnified. I went there for inspiration and insight.

Thought is only a gleam in the midst of a long night. But it is this gleam which is everything.

Discovery is discernment, selection.

Healthy people are invalids who don't know it.

Es gibt Gebiete des Denkens, die man nicht ungestraft betritt. Kopfschmerzen und ein schlechter Charakter sind der Mindestpreis.

Schon ein paar Tage konzentrierter Beobachtung genügen, um die Vorlieben und Abneigungen, Gewohnheiten und Empfindlichkeiten, Stimmtonarten und Farbschemata der Haut zu kennen, die sich um die Standarte eines Personennamens versammeln und miteinander ein Wesen formen, das 'Mensch' genannt wird, so wie große Mengen von Fischen 'Schwarm' heißen.