Insight

“Dig within yourself. Within lies the wellspring of good, and it can always flow again if you keep digging.”

“You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

“The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes. So do the minds that are prevented from changing their opinions: they cease to be mind.”

“He who fights monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”

“The surest way to corrupt a young man is to teach him to esteem those who think alike above those who think differently.”

“Have courage to use your own understanding!”

“Enlightenment is man's release from his self-imposed immaturity.”

“Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”

“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”

“Nothing in the world, nor even beyond it, can possibly be conceived as good without limitation, except a good will.”

“The beautiful is the symbol of the morally good.”

“Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so many people gladly remain immature for life.”

“The All is mind; the universe is mental.”

“As above, so below; as below, so above.”

“Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites.”

“Every cause has its effect; every effect has its cause.”

“The lips of wisdom are closed, except to the ears of understanding.”

“The principles of truth are seven; he who knows and understands them possesses the magic key before whose touch all the doors of the temple fly open.”

“Everyone sees what you appear to be. Few feel what you are.”

“Whoever makes another powerful ruins himself.”

“Men forget the death of a father sooner than the loss of their inheritance.”

“Know the other and know yourself, and you need not fear a hundred encounters.”

“A hundred victories in a hundred battles is not the highest skill. To undo resistance without fighting is.”

“Water shapes its course to the ground. Whoever wins adapts to what lies before them.”

“Everyone takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.”

“Wealth is like seawater: the more you drink, the thirstier you become.”

“Nothing is easier than condemning a person. Nothing is harder than understanding them.”

“A human being is a mystery. It must be unravelled, and whoever spends a life at it has not wasted their time.”

“Whoever lies to themselves ends up losing the ability to tell anything apart.”

“Some things are up to us and some are not. All peace begins with telling the two apart.”

“We have two ears and one mouth so that we listen twice as much as we speak.”