Quotes About Clarity

Quero te conhecer por outras fontes, seguir para tua alma por outros caminhos; nada desejo de tua vida que passou, nem teu nome, nem teus sonhos, nem a história do teu sofrimento; o mistério explica mais que a claridade.

Madness borders the cruelest good sense.

Make no mistake, I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.

I thought of something so beautiful that I couldn't understand it. And I ended up forgetting what it was.

I thought of something so beautiful that I couldn't even understand it. And I ended up forgetting what it was.

Toda compreensão súbita é finalmente a revelação de uma aguda incompreensão. Todo momento de achar é um perder-se a si próprio.

Well, she sighed, even if it wasn't reaching me clearly, at least she knew that there was a secret meaning to the things of life. So it was she knew that she occasionally, even if somewhat confusedly, ended up sensing perfection—

Out of a clean heart comes a clean life and a clean body.

Any human being on the planet today can take off their shoes and stand in the dirt and instantly know everything there is to know.

Truth is a torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

Science repulses the indefinite.

Well sometimes things don't make sense right away, so you might as well put them aside and wait until they do" -Mom

Intentá ser feliz sin mentiras ni delirios", escribió el abuelo en la carta dirigida a mí, la que podía leer solo. Que hubiera elegido el verbo intentar me resultó clave:

People confuse thinking with knowing, they let themselves confuse the two.

Sometimes you read something and a thought that was floating around in your veins organizes itself into the sentence that reflects it.

For all your previous understandings, suddenly incoherence feels violent.

Another friend tells you you have to learn not to absorb the world. She says sometimes she can hear her own voice saying silently to whomever--you are saying this thing and I am not going to accept it. Your friend refuses to carry what doesn't belong to her. You take in things you don't want all the time. The second you hear or see some ordinary moment, all its intended targets, all the meanings behind the retreating seconds, as far as you are able to see, come into focus.

The purpose of art," James Baldwin wrote, "is to lay bare the questions hidden by the answers." He might have been channeling Dostoyevsky's statement that "we have all the answers. It is the questions we do not know.

We go out in the fog in the morning won't burn.

And for her, now, replaced by the plain language of the dogs, who in a few syllables have everything to say.

I will omit but I will not distort.

Where's the beef?

Often, simply knowing the answer is the largest hurdle to overcome when formulating a proof.

Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it dissolves their opacity.