"Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience."
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"The characters get challenged. Through getting challenged, the character arrives at insights or discovers potentials that he or she didn't know they had."
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"Insight, untested and unsupported, is an uncertain guarantee of the truth."
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"Zen insight is not our awareness, but Being's awareness of itself in us."
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"Our searches for numerical order lead as often to terminal nuttiness as to profound insight."
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"If I have any insight at all to contribute it is this: find out what you are really good at and stick to it."
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"Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?"
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"For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight."
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"... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection."
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"Is insight dependent on a material process? Has insight a cause?"
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"If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess."
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"There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it."
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"Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason."
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"Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeting insight."
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"But when you get to know a character so well, you start to have insights that you can't show because you're confined to your script of your hit show."
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"In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are."
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"A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker."
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"Truthfulness itself is almost medication, even when it’s served without advice or insight."
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"When Caesar says, 'Do this', it is performed."
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"My experiences with dope were not good for me. I had to go another route. Because in my experience, dope didn't give me those insights."
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