Quotes About Clarity

Now, an hour later, Ethan stood at a window, gazing at the rain, like threads of seed pearls, accessorizing the hills of Bel Air. Watching weather clarified his thinking. Sometimes only nature felt real, while all human monuments and actions seemed to be the settings and the plots of dreams.

Sometimes enlightenment descends upon you when you least expect it...

Truth could not be redefined. Truth was what it was.

The darkness was not an absence of light, but an absence of meaning, for meaning arose only from the exercise of free will.

In the war, to survive, you had to be responsible every minute of every day, unhesitatingly responsible for yourself, for your every action. You had to be responsible for your buddies, too, because survival wasn't something that could be achieved alone. That's maybe the one positive thing about fighting in a war - it clarifies your thinking and makes you realize that a sense of responsibility is what separates good men from the damned.

Then the clarifying thing happens, and what you need to do, what you must do, is not a question, not demand more revelation than what is given, be quiet in the face of it, quiet and grateful that it has been given to you to see this, to be for even a short time aware of the extraordinary layered depths and profound beauty of the world to which we mostly blind ourselves.

because truth is always and only what it is

I have known her less than twenty-four hours. And the longer I know her, the more she mystifies me. She is perhaps eighteen, almost four years younger than me, but she seems much older. The things she says are often cryptic, though I feel that the meaning would be clear to me if I were wiser than I am.

Quick now, here, now, always, as if we are in a condition of complete simplicity...

I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's more easily understood.

Intuition is the highest form of knowledge.

the nature of the world when you dared to see it clearly: a place of mystery in which extraordinary coincidences were more common than they seemed.

can't see anything inside, just vague shapes, which probably means the glass is heavily tinted and polarized, so it looks clear from inside but not from out here

should know. Though

By all those tells, he wrote his anxiety and his guilt as clearly as if he had composed his confession on a blackboard with a stick of chalk.

He knew what he didn't know. Dorian Purcell, on the other hand, seemed not to know what he didn't know.

Sometimes truth was elusive...

Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes. You can't worry about them for a minute. They're hopeless.

I thought it was of a heart attack, but then I realized no one ever said as much.

The curtains of the past part, and he sees what has been; the mists of the future clear, and he sees an event yet to occur.

Under the final level of apparent chaos, one finds strange order again, and the final level of order is thought." "Thought?

Don't use your mind to try and figure things out. What is it that watches your mind? Be there—now.

Do not seek truth; merely cease to cherish opinions.

Don't make assumptions. Ask and let me explain. Don't decide what you think I feel.