Ludwig Borne Quotes

I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Wisdom begins at the end.

The older you get, of course, the knowingness of the truth - the ownership of knowing - is louder.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts

I like to open people's eyes.

I've always thought that when they say ignorance is bliss, the converse to that is that knowledge is hell. The more you know, the bleaker things can get.

Do you really know what's going on And if you don't... find out

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.

Once you realize something, then you can't pretend you don't know it any more.

An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.

The recognition of the false is already the arising of the real.

Comes a Time when the blind man takes your hand says DON'T YOU SEE?

I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew.

Having one's eyes opened doesn't make one grateful.

If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.

You know more about me than I do about myself, that's probably true.