Quotes About Clarity

Metti chiunque, anche uno scemo, davanti a una finestra, e avrai uno Spinoza.

Every year, the memories I have of my father become more faint, unclear, and distant. once they were vivid and true, then they became like photographs, and now they are more like photographs of photographs. But sometimes, at rare moments, a memory of him will return to me with such suddenness and clarity that all the feeling I've pushed down for years springs out like a jack-in-the-box.

The more I've learned in my life, the more acutely I've felt my hunger and blindness, and at the same time the closer I've felt to the end of hunger, the end of blindness. At times I've felt myself to be clinging onto the rim—of what I can hardly say without the risk of sounding ridiculous—only to slip and find myself deeper in the hole than ever. And there, in the dark, I find again in myself a form of praise for all that continues to crush my certainty.

Jsou chvíle, kdy na vás pÃ…â"¢ijde jakási jasnozÃ…â"¢ivost a vy najednou prohlédnete skrz zdi do jiného rozmÄ›ru, na který jste zapomnÄ›li nebo se rozhodli ho nevnímat, abyste mohli dál žít s nejr?znÄ›jÅ¡ími iluzemi, díky nimž je život, zejména život s druhými, v?bec možný.

The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that they had been embellished by details from elsewhere, fragments that survived the obliteration of other memories, vagrant data that gravitated and stuck to what was left to remember. But in the end he rejected this idea. The memories were too perfect: take one detail away and they collapsed into disorder.

I did it for myself alone, not for anyone else, and that was the difference. It didn't matter if I found the words, and more than that, I knew it would be impossible to find the right ones.

And yet, because people knew how easily they could happen, because they didn't go around with the illusion that they understood perfectly the things other people said, they were used to interrupting each other to ask if they had understood correctly.

The intense clarity of the image failed to satisfy us, for it seemed to hide as much as it revealed; and while it seemed to invite us to pierce the veil and examine the mystery behind it, its luminous concreteness nevertheless held the eye entranced and kept it from probing deeper

One knows a little too much about everybody. And we can even see through some men, and yet we can by no means pass through them.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

and neither of them ever said what they meant and i guess nobody ever does

One has to be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane

The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view. This again is due to the ignorance of those concerned, not so much in their own, as in their mutual fields.

Ä°nsanlar?n çoÄŸu d?? dünyadan beklentileri ile öyle meÅŸgul ki kendi içlerinde olanlardan tamamen bihaber.

Madness, Brother Masseo, is the salt which prevents good sense from rotting.

Anl?yorsun! Anl?yorsun ya, seni bu yiyecek! Anlamasayd?n mutlu olurdun!

The higher we went the more our spirits seemed to become purged and exalted. Once again I felt the influence on the soul of pure air, easy breathing and a vast horizon. Anyone would think the soul, too, was an animal with lungs and nostrils, and that it needed oxygen, was stifled in the dust or in the midst of too much stale breath.

S? m? ierÈ›i, st?pâne, eu mi-s cam din topor; vorbele-mi strepezesc dinÈ›ii, se lipesc de ei ca noroiul de picioare ; nu pot s? turui È™i s? spun baliverne, nu pot È™i pace; da' tu m?-nÈ›elegi, nu-i aÈ™a?

ÎÈ›i vin în gând mari asemenea modele, vezi limpede c? eÈ™ti un om de nimic, c? viaÈ›a È›i se iroseÈ™te în bucurii È™i în tristeÈ›i m?runte, în discuÈ›ii f?r? sens. "RuÈ™ine! RuÈ™ine!" strigi muÈ™cându-È›i buzele.

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

WITH CLARITY and quiet, I look upon the world and say: All that I see, hear, taste, smell, and touch are the creations of my mind.

A alma humana é inteiramente lama, é bruta, não trabalhada, tem sensações ainda grosseiras e rudes, não consegue prever nada de nítido, de certo.

Con una claridad que lo entumeció más que el vino, supo que era todos los hombres y que todos los hombres eran él y que cada vez que combatía al maldito Caballero Negro estaba combatiendo por su propia supervivencia, sencillamente. Solo y borracho, se percató de ello por primera vez.