Quotes About Clarity

Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.

Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.

The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of feel what I'm feeling?

Although we cannot rid ourselves of misconceptions, we can correct them when we become aware of them.

after Spinoza, philosophers know that they are using language to clarify language, like cutters using diamonds to shape other diamonds. Language is seen no longer as a road to demonstrable truth, but as a spiral or gallery of mirrors bringing the intellect back to its point of departure.

As with the douchebags of the world, calling an asshole an asshole sometimes is exactly what needs to happen.

An aside: I learned that the correct term is "Maya" and not "Mayan," which apparently refers only to the language. The incorrect term is in such common usage, however, that people often don't know what I'm talking about if I use

I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question

To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove doubts of their miscarriage.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Simple Bible statements, apt illustrations, and pertinent anecdotes,

Simple Bible statements, apt illustrations, and pertinent anecdotes, were the more common weapons that he used. The consequence was that his hearers always understood him. He never shot above their heads. Here again is one grand element of a preacher's success. He must labour by all means to be understood. It was a wise saying of Archbishop Usher, "To make easy things seem hard is every man's work; but to make hard things easy is the work of a great preacher.

I can now see to the bottom of my own depths, there is nothing stopping my gaze, no obstacle is in the way. And there is nothing there.

But people talk too much. They talk and talk so much that when the time comes there's nothing left in their words. They're like the dust you raise when you're winnowing grain.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

Kay?ts?zl?k dili geçersiz k?l?yor,iÅŸaretleri anla??lmaz hale getiriyor.Sab?rl?s?n ama beklemiyorsun, özgürsün ama seçmiyorsun,müsaitsin ama hiçbir ÅŸey seni harekete geçirmiyor. Hiçbir ÅŸey istemiyor,hiçbir ÅŸey talep etmiyor, hiçbir ÅŸeyi dayatm?yorsun.Hiç dinlemeden duyuyor,hiç bakmadan görüyorsun.

Human tragedies are always simple when we reconsider them in retrospect.

If I try to define my state as accurately as possible, I'd say that I possessed a warped lucidity. Reality existed around me, and I was in contact with it. I was aware of my actions.

When I write, I know who I am, but once I stop, I am no longer so sure.

being alone is better than being with someone who is just filling space.

Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.

It is only by selection, by elimination, and by emphasis that we get at the real meaning of things.