Quotes about Insight

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

Most pastors have a hard time grasping a vision. But vision is the indispensable quality of a leader.

Let time that makes you homely make you sage.

There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.

If a ray of light falls into a pigsty, it is the ray that shows us the muck and it is the ray that is offensive.

in the wisdom of women the Golden One had understood more than we can understand.

All work is an act of creating and comes from the same source: from an inviolate capacity to see through one's own eyes—which means: the capacity to perform a rational identification -which means: the capacity to see, to connect and to make what had not been seen, connected and made before.

Strange how a single conversation can change you. Or maybe it only seems that way in retrospect.

I never learn anything from listening to myself.

Words were not just words, describing things a person could see. Even if most did not. Maybe they had to know a thing first, to see it.

I thought everything in the world was already discovered. Already in my books. A lot of dead stuff that put me to sleep. That was the day I understood the world is still living.

No matter what happens on God's green earth, Father acts like it's a movie he's already seen and we're just dumb for not knowing how it comes out.