Quotes About Opacity

History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, the generator of history. There is a fundamental incompleteness in your grasp of such events, since you do not see what's inside the box, how the mechanisms work.

Randomness, in the end, is just unknowledge. The world is opaque and appearances fool us.

even if x remains vastly beyond our understanding.

empirically, complex systems do not have obvious one-dimensional cause-and-effect mechanisms, and that under opacity, you do not mess with such a system.

There is such opacity within the art market. There's also an abundance of fraud and misrepresented goods, which leads to mistrust between buyers and sellers.

Purity is obscurity.

In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.

Her boarders are so hard and bright that these lumpy things are being blinded just by looking at her; she's opaque, she's impermeable, she's a million densities and dimensions more real than any of them. They break against her and roll off like mist.

a chaos so great and so obscure that nothing about it can be known'.

It's a murky world out there, and it's hard to figure things out sometimes.

God is behind all things, but all things conceal God. Objects are black and humans are opaque. To love a person is to render them transparent

Nigeria is still grappling with the negative consequences of the use of opacity by senior members of government and their cronies between 1993 and 1998, awarding themselves juicy contracts in the extractive industry.

the distinguished Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington, in his text American Politics, observes that power must remain invisible if it is to be effective: "The architects of power in the United States must create a force that can be felt but not seen. Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.

Fragments of these speeches, in which the words 'translucence' and 'opacity' rose and burst like bubbles, now sounded in Cincinnatus's ears, and the rush of blood became applause

Eres la más opaca de todos los opacos

La mucha luz es como la mucha sombra: no deja ver.

Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either.

I'm interested in when language fails, when it is opaque.

I remembered those elements in Scile, the little opacities that had always been present, that I'd always been intrigued by, that now seemed to have come to constitute all of him.

Of mystery there is no end. Of clarity, there is precious little.

Sticky, as if someone had pulled a string in his back, promptly answered, "To make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive, or to otherwise render indistinct." Constance looked frightened.

abstruse dullness is actually a much more effective shield than is secrecy.

Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it dissolves their opacity.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.