Quotes About Clarity

Under her fierce gaze my past is burned away.

I say I'm in love with her, what does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly she explains me to myself; like genius she is ignorant of what she does.

Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights.

Congratulations on your Engagement'. But I am not engaged I am deeply distracted.

I do not know the art of being clear to those who do not want to be attentive.

In order not to find me in contradiction with myself, I should be allowed enough time to explain myself

De manera que toda esta superioridad de sabiduría que me otorga el oráculo se reduce únicamente a estar convencido completamente de que ignoro todo lo que no sé.

Das einzige Mittel, den Irrtum zu vermeiden, ist die Unwissenheit.

I warn the reader that this chapter requires careful reading, and that I am unable to make myself clear to those who refuse to be attentive.

Wise men, if they try to speak their language to the common herd instead of its own, cannot possibly make themselves understood.

You never really know what's going on with your ceiling until you just give up and lie down on your floor.

I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all.

I began to feel like I was getting the whole story for the first time, that I was being handed the missing pieces to the puzzle, and the world was making a little more sense.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. —Oscar Wilde

Qué absurdos se vuelven nuestros odios cuando sólo podemos reconocerlos en las circunstancias más obvias.

Most of the time, because of their failure to fasten on to words, my thoughts remain misty and nebulous. They assume vague, amusing shapes and are then swallowed up: I promptly forget them.

I marvel at these young people: drinking their coffee, they tell clear, plausible stories. If they are asked what they did yesterday, they aren't embarrassed: they bring you up to date in a few words. If I were in their place, I'd fall all over myself.

The Nausea has stayed down there, in the yellow light. I am happy: this cold is so pure, this night so pure: am I myself not a wave of icy air? With neither blood, nor lymph, nor flesh. Flowing down this long canal towards the pallor down there. To be nothing but coldness.

I must wash myself clean with abstract thoughts, transparent as water.

Me gustaría tanto abandonarme, olvidarme, dormir. Pero no puedo, me sofoco: la existencia me penetra por todas partes, por los ojos, por la nariz, por la boca... Y de golpe, de un sólo golpe, el velo se desgarra, he comprendido, he visto.

The most clear-sided view of the darkest possible situation is itself an act of optimism

I would like to see the truth clearly before it is too late.

When you want to understand something you stand in front of it, alone, without help: all the past in the world is of no use.

La mayor parte del tiempo, al no unirse a palabras, mis pensamientos quedan en la niebla. Dibujan formas claras y agradables, se disipan; en seguida las olvido.