Quotes About Clarity

Your book, ' The Tyranny of God ,' is well done. It is a very clear statement of the question, bold and true beyond dispute. I am glad that you wrote it. It is as plain as the multiplication table, which doesn't mean that everyone will believe it. I thank you for writing it. I wish I were the author. { Preface to 'The Tyranny of God by Joseph Lewis }

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

Que ninguém se engane: só se consegue a simplicidade através de muito trabalho.

I feel as though I've already achieved what I wanted and I still don't know what I achieved. Could that be the somewhat dubious and elusive thing vaguely called 'experience'?

At half past three in the morning I woke up. And immediately elastic I jumped out of bed. I came to write you. I mean: be. Now it's half past five. I want nothing: I am pure. I don't wish this solitude on you. But I myself am in the creating fog. Lucid darkness, luminous stupidity.

This text that I give you is not to be seen close up: it gains its secret previously invisible roundness when seen from a high-flying plane. Then you can divine the play of islands and see the channels and seas. Understand me: I write you an onomatopoeia, convulsion of language. I'm not transmitting to you a story but just words that live from sound. I speak to you thus: "Lustful trunk.

I've always liked putting things in their places. I think it's my only true calling. By ordering things I create and understand at the same time ... Ordering is finding the best form.

I find the greatest serenity in hallucination.

Sin embargo, a veces adivinaba. Eran manchas cósmicas que sustituían al entender.

She had pacified life so well, taken such care for it not to explode. She had kept it all in serene comprehension, separated each person from the rest, clothes were clearly made to be worn and you could choose the evening movie from the newspaper—everything wrought in such a way that one day followed another.

E nunca antes eu me havia deixado levar, a menos que soubesse para o quê.

Cuando se comprende a fondo el vivir, uno se pregunta: pero ¿era solo esto? Y la respuesta es: no es solo esto, es exactamente esto.

I always liked to arrange things. I guess it's my only real vocation. By putting things in order, I create and understand at the same time.

Estaba viendo claramente el vacío. Y ni entendía aquello que una parte de ella entendía. ¿Qué haría de esa lucidez? Sabía también que aquella claridad suya se podía volver el infierno humano.

Elk ding is een woord

Above all, she went on thinking, she understands life because she is not sufficiently intelligent not to understand it.

One thing I do know: love, however violent, is pure. And that is how I have come to discover that I am not pure.

Life is like that: you press a button and life lights up. Except that the girl didnt know which button to press.

The danger of meditating is accidentally beginning to think , and thinking is no longer meditating, thinking leads to an objective. The least dangerous thing, in meditating, is "seeing," which dispenses with thinking words.

Sav?s nesuvokiantis individas geriau save realizuoja. Tiesa ar melas?

The struggle to reach reality—that's the main objective of this creature who tries, in every way, to cling to whatever exists by means of a total vision of things. I meant to make clear too the way vision—the way of seeing, the viewpoint—alters reality, constructing it. A house is not only constructed with stones, cement etc. A man's way of looking constructs it too.

Só uma pessoa muito delicada pode entrar no quarto vazio onde há um espelho vazio, e com tal leveza, com tal ausência de si mesma, que a imagem não marca. Como prêmio, essa pessoa delicada terá então penetrado num dos segredos invioláveis das coisas: Vi o espelho propriamente dito.

Aunque en el fondo no quisiera comprender. Sabía que aquello era imposible y todas las veces había pensado que si había comprendido era por haber comprendido mal. Comprender era siempre un error - prefería la vastedad amplia y libre y sin errores del no-entender. Era malo, pero, al menos, se sabía que se estaba en plena condición humana.