Quotes About Clarity

Si piensa que todo es perfecto en su vida, o bien es usted un buda, o bien es completamente idiota.

The older I get the more mixed up life seems. When you're little, it's all so plain. It's all laid out like a game ready to play. You think you know exactly how it's going to go. But things happen...

I wonder, I thought, what I am really thinking. Last week I would have known definitely but now everything seemed vague and evasive.

It is so difficult to endow our words with meaning, to talk sense to each other.

I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why.

The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusion.

The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions.

El hombre se asemeja a un ciego que niega la luz porque no la ve. ¡La luz es un hondo misterio para el ciego!

I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

Unless we close our eyes we are always deceived.

To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.

Nothing is more difficult than to know precisely what we see.

These clarifications allow us to understand motricity unequivocally as original intentionality. Consciousness is originally not an 'I think that,' but rather an 'I can.

Obscurity spreads to the perceived world in its entirety,

Ambiguity cannot be resolved, but it can be understood as ultimate.

We would not know even what the false is, if there were not times when we had distinguished it from the true...If we are to be able to speak of falsity, we do have to have experiences of truth.

The possession of a representation or the exercise of a judgment is not coextensive with the life of consciousness. Rather, consciousness is a network of signification intentions which are sometimes clear to themselves and sometimes, on the contrary, lived rather than known.

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You could see it.

When in doubt, head into the wind.

Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent thinking clearly is never time wasted.

To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be.

We can teach ourselves to see things the way they ARE. Only with vision can we begin to see things the way they CAN BE.