Quotes About Clarity

I do not say - far, very far be it from me to say - that I myself have the rayon blanc, but I am not ashamed to say that it exists, this White Light - and that I seek it, and only this do I consider simplicity.

Good writing is emotionally honest but does not get stuck in the emotion.

Lat., Now I know what love is.

North. He believes they saw him as

I call myself a wordkeeper, or a keeper of words. I enjoy words and looking at them on all sides… Words are magnificent… They form rhythms of living in meaningful prose… It is the force of my desire, my wish to make myself understood, that powers these words.

Men don't know what they like. They rely on us to tell them.

There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.

Sia chiaro, per me ragione significa che io ho ragione.

V S Naipaul] brings to [literary narrative] an extraordinary capacity for making art out of lucid thought. Observe hard, think even harder, figure out what you are thinking in the simplest, clearest language, and you will arrive at narrative: that is his credo.

She leans into the memory. She stares. She concentrates. What IS it that's she's looking for, trying to get straight at last?

Letter writing is not the noble enterprise. Remaining fully expressive is the noble enterprise.

Divido a la humanidad en dos campos bien diferenciados. Por un lado, el puñado de los que saben de qué se trata; por el otro, la inmensa multitud de los que no lo saben.

Se dice, por ejemplo, que lo más misterioso no es la noche profunda sino el mediodía, el momento en que todas las cosas están instaladas en su evidencia, en el que se desnuda el hecho mismo de la existencia de las cosas. El hecho de que estén allí es más misterioso que la noche, que despierta pensamientos del secreto. Un secreto se descubre, pero un misterio se revela y es imposible descubrirlo.

When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.

The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

If you wish to converse with me, define your terms

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.

True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

Great is truth, and all powerful.

why has it taken so long for you to say it?