Quotes About Clarity

I went to sleep in Chaos, and then I awoke like the first man.

Let everything be remade on simple lines. There is only one people, there is only one people!

Ah, my poor child, how far gone you are in your blindness! Why did you have me summoned?" "I had hopes, I had hopes." "Hopes? Hopes of what?" "I do not know. The things we hope for are always the things we do not know.

A philosopher worthy of the name has never said more than a single thing: and even then it is something he has tried to say, rather than actually said. And he has said only one thing because he has seen only one point: and at that it was not so much a vision as a point of contact.

Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should? ­

Experience seems to come from a distance.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

Action is only coarsened thought-thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.

Precision is not reality.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

Exactitude is not truth.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illumination the fog that surround

Tu peux être tranquille. Il reste du limpide en toi. En une seule vie tu n'as pas pu tout souiller.

What is the "it" in "write it down"? When you don't have an answer to that question, when you don't know what your goals are, you can use your writing to point you in the right direction. If you don't know what you want, start writing. Writing makes its own meaning

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not yet the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear and undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light and serenity.

Action is but coarsened thought; thought become concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

The spectacles of experience through them you will see clearly a second time.

All bold, great actions that are seen too near, Look rash and foolish to unthinking eyes; But at a distance they at once appear In their true grandeur.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.