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.”

“How absurd not to flee your own conduct, which is possible, and to flee another's, which is not.”

“Look within. There is the source of good, and it will ever bubble up if you will ever dig.”

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”

“No wind is favourable to one who does not know where they are going.”

“It is not things that trouble people, but their judgements about things.”

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

“It is impossible for anyone to learn what they think they already know.”

“Some things are in our power, others are not. All peace begins with knowing the difference.”

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster.”

“It is not doubt that drives people mad, but certainty.”

“In the end one loves one's desire and not the thing desired.”

“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: with it one gets through many a bad night.”

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

“What a person is in themselves, what accompanies them into solitude, matters more than all they possess.”

“Dare to use your own understanding.”

“Act so that the maxim of your will could always hold as a principle of universal law.”

“Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.”

“The human being can become human only through education. He is nothing but what education makes of him.”

“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.”

“Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.”

“By their fruits you shall know them.”

“Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye and not the beam in your own?”

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

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

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

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear a hundred battles.”

“The supreme art is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”

“Man is a mystery. It must be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life at it, do not say you wasted your time.”

“One who lies to themselves and listens to their own lie comes to know no truth at all.”

“The mystery of existence lies not in living alone, but in knowing what one lives for.”

“Everything is dual. Everything has poles. Opposites are identical in nature and differ only in degree.”

“He who is everywhere is nowhere.”

“Time discovers the truth.”

“First say to yourself what you want to be. Then do what you have to do.”

“Demand nothing that is not yours, and nothing will ever be taken from you.”

“Man is a rope tied between beast and overman. A rope over an abyss.”

“A man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.”

“The greatest folly is to sacrifice health for anything else.”

“Man is the only creature that must be educated.”

“The worth of a man lies not in what he owns, but in what he is.”

“Who cannot give account of three thousand years stays in the dark, unlearned, living day to day.”

“He who knows others is clever. He who knows himself is wise.”

“He who makes a mistake and does not correct it commits a second one.”

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”

“We talk the longest about what we do not know.”

“The heart has its reasons which reason does not know.”

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”

“Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him to himself.”