And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
In the end, the thing that really stays with you is not that you were clever enough to connect a sketch to another sketch, but what really sticks with you is when you just have an incredible moment happen, or execute a really funny idea.
To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on.
Knowledge for a warrior is something that comes at once, engulfs him, and passes on
The manner in which one single ray of light, one single precious hint, will clarify and energize the whole mental life of him who receives it, is among the most wonderful and heavenly of intellectual phenomena.
