Quotes About Clarity

the razor of Ockham is clean and decisive.

If you don't state a clear preference, then your drink is like a bad game of poker or a hasty drug transaction: It is whatever the dealer says it is. Please do try to bear this in mind.

If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings, I say, 'I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.

Very often in my experience, the extraneous or irrelevant complexities are inserted when a matter of elementary justice or principle is at issue.

You don't become an atheist so much as you find out that's what you are.

In another moment, when I had drunk exactly the right amount of champagne, I should have a vision. I took a sip. And now, with extreme clarity, without passion or malice, I saw what Life really is. It had something, I remember, to do with the revolving sunshade. Yes, I murmured to myself, let them dance. They are dancing, I am glad.

there are some things you don't even know you know, until you're asked.

Despair is something horribly simple.

The incentive is to fight anarchy. That's all Man lives for. Reclaiming life from its natural muddle. Making patterns." "Patterns for what?" "For the sake of patterns. To create meaning. What else is there?

Don't drive drunk. Ever. Don't shag anyone you don't like, or who doesn't like you. Get a look at how people live in a place where you don't. Suffering is over-rated, don't pursue it. Ask for help when you need it, don't when you don't, and learn to recognize the difference. Don't confuse movement and progress. Be kind. Be forgiving. Pay attention.

You think too much. Thinking will bring you nothing but suffering. Be simple.

FYI, when I type WTF, you are supposed to read What the Fuck? Same with OMG, and OMFG, which are Oh My God and Oh My Fucking God. Only a completely lame Disney Channel nimnode pronounces the letters.

He tapped into the Zen of ignorance, the enlightenment of absurdity.

He was a LEPER, you idiot! Not a leopard.

He had tapped into the Zen of ignorance, the enlightenment of absurdity.

there comes a point where you'll find something out, where you'll see something, or where something will suddenly come together, and you'll realize that you know something that no one else in the world knows yet. Just you. No one else. You realize that all the value you have is in that one thing, and you're only going to have it for a short time until you tell someone else, but for that time you are more alive than you'll ever be.

That's what I'm saying," said Charlie, who wasn't saying that at all.

We looked not at each other, and neither at the ground, but at a place in space a few feet from our faces, where I suppose one looks for a clear answer to appear out of undefined shock.

That's it?" Joshua asked, as he hopped off his post and winced upon landing. "Why did we set up twenty posts if we were only going to use three?" "Why were you thinking of twenty when you can only stand on one?" answered Three. "I have to pee," I said. "Exactly," said the monk. So there you have it: Buddhism.   Each

Parables were never my strong suit. If you wan to say something, say it. So, of course, Joshua and Buddhists were the perfect people to hang out with, straight talkers that they were.

A theory has no better time than when it's lying there naked, pure, unsullied by facts.

When you sit, sit. When you breathe, breathe. When you eat, eat," Gaspar would say, meaning that every bit of our being was to be in the moment, completely aware of the now, no past, no future, nothing dividing us from everything that is. It's hard for me, a Jew, to stay in the moment. Without the past, where is the guilt? And without the future, where is the dread? And without guilt and dread, who am I?

When you sit, sit. When you breathe, breathe. When you eat, eat

A question asked in earnest, deserves an earnest answer.