Quotes About Clarity

This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.

There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.

I'm sure there's some philosophy that says one of the best ways to deal with any of your problems is to take a deep breath and step away from them for a while, writing does this for me.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it myself at this very moment.

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.

I remember a time when things were a lot more fun around here, when good was good and evil was evil, before things got fuzzy.

My philosophy is very simple: when in doubt, take a bath.

I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa

Philosophy is everybody's business.

A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.

The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.

My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.

Without philosophy, action has no meaning.

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.