Quotes about Insight

Objection 3: Further, it is written (1 Cor. 13:12): "We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face.

We need discernment in what we see and what we hear and what we believe.

I saw many aspects of the country which I needed to see in order that I might know what we need to do.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

Books: our unfailing companions

Nothing is too absurd for some philosopher to have said it.

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

To put it figuratively, the role played by a logotherapist is rather that of an eye specialist than of a painter. A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it, an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is.

Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life.

To put it figuratively, the role played by a logotherapist is that of an eye specialist rather than that of a painter. A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is. The logotherapist's role consists of widening and broadening the visual field of the patient so that the whole spectrum of potential meaning becomes conscious and visible to him.

Do not judge the life history of a particular person by the number of pages in the book that portrays it but only by the richness of the content it contains.

We are living in an age of specialists but sometimes a specialist is a man who no longer sees the forest of truth for the trees of fact.