#insight

All cruelty springs from weakness.

For what else is tragedy, but the sufferings of men, bewildered by their admiration of external things, represented in proper verse?

One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.

Most human beings eat the menu instead of the dinner.

The reason we do not see it is that we are looking with our eyes wide open in the wrong direction.

I attend as a midwife to the soul; the god compels me to foster the birth of truth in others, while withholding from me the power to produce it myself.

True understanding begins when one is stripped of the conceit of knowledge.

The great flaw of penetration is not that it fails to reach the point, but that it goes past it.

Insight is immediate; it does not take time.

The astronomer may speak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.