Quotes About Clarity

If something is not a "hell, YEAH!", then it's a "no!

The current state of knowledge remains vague when history is not considered, just as history remains vague without substantive knowledge about the current state.

l'unica cosa su cui sarai giudicata è se l'hai chiesto.

The truly interesting question for man is neither logic, a fascinating game, nor demonstration, an inviting curiosity. Rather, the intriguing problem for man is how to adhere to reality, to become aware of reality.

Tu proponi il tuo sguardo alla realtà. Se non proponi te stessa, proponi una menzogna, un'astrazione.

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Guardate, la verità ha un volto semplice: basta che uno apra gli occhi.

Quando sei malinconica, quando sei arrabbiata, quando sei contro, quando sei piena di «forse», di «se», di «ma» e di «però», a che cosa aderisci? A niente, tendenzialmente a niente, e dunque sbagli: ti depauperi, ti svuoti. E, infatti, ciò che si incrementa è la solitudine.

Al término de esta última proyección, la quinta o sexta, se lanzó hacia mí, lleno de alegría, y me dijo: —¡Ya está, Luis, es formidable, lo he entendido todo! Ahora fui yo quien se quedó perplejo. La película narraba una historia extremadamente sencilla, a mi modo de ver. ¿Qué había en ella tan difícil de entender?

Sempre escrevemos para recordar a verdade. Quando inventamos, é para recordá-la mais exatamente.

pensar supone siempre un riesgo, y que el mejor lugar para filosofar está precisamente en la frontera entre la luz y las tinieblas, en ese claroscuro donde todo es incierto, y al lado mismo del vacío, entre lo estable y lo precario, allí donde las palabras se juntan un momento en tropel, prefiguran un edificio de clarividencia y se precipitan luego en el olvido. "El abismo es el ágora de nuestro tiempo" solía decir mientras se columpiaba en el alféizar.

No habra nadie que destruye de tu alma la verdad.

There is no such thing as 'my truth' or 'your truth'," he said. "There is only one truth. You'll live to find that out.

It was all about eyes, the truth.

having already understood everything that you will understand henceforward and until the end of your days." -Q

It is well for people who think, to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean.

It is well for people who think, to change their minds ocasionally in order to keep them clean.

Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity.

No greater mischief can happen to a Christian people, than to have God's word taken from them, or falsified, so that they no longer have it pure and clear. God grant we and our descendants be not witness to such a calamity.

There was no confusion of our bodies. I knew which arm was his and which mine, and which leg, and which shoulder. I did not lose track and kiss my own arm, or whatever came near my mouth. THe smallest motion did not immediately lead to another motion. It was not endless, I did not go more and more deeply into my body and his body as though to go as far as possible from my mind, and his mind, so conscious, so unrelenting. It did not end while it was still in the middle.

Under all this dirt the floor is really very clean." Lydia Davis

And then, there have always been days when my mind does not make connections very fast. There are always days when my mind is cloudy, or I forget things, or I feel as if I am in a different town or a different house—that something around me or about me is not normal.

The word "fine" is the greatest abbreviation and obviously wrong.