Quotes About Clarity

To define a thing is to see it clearly, to see it as distinct from other things and at the same time to see its exact relationship with other things: for a thing is its relations and activities.

She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if to find the key to everything before morning.

She had always wanted words, she loved them, grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. Whereas I thought words bent emotions like sticks in water.

just them by themselves Mark apparently thought that simply writing "Jesus took Peter and James and John" would leave open the possibility that others joined them, so he clarifies that the four were "just them by themselves." Generally we must take care not to attribute more exactness to a Gospel text than is strictly required. For example, if the evangelist gives a list, we are not justified in inferring that the list is exhaustive.

You must have me confused with myself

Finally, Sacred Tradition is also necessary because some truths of the faith are expressed in a completely definite form in Scripture, while others are not entirely clear and precise and therefore demand confirmation by the Sacred Apostolic Tradition.

Life is all about detecting and then avoiding bullshit.

If a dense human still fails to get the message, reach over and touch the item you intend for them to share, or touch an arm or cheek with your paw.

I know the answer now, but I'm so frightened I've forgotten the question.

When I write things down, I own them. They're no longer hanging in mid-air like cartoon bubbles or wisps of smoke. They're made real. Solid. Conversation doesn't last. Spoken words fade. We stop listening. Forget.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde

nothing is black and white except for mathematics and pandas.

He once told me that being politically correct was like pretending you could pick up a dog turd by the clean end.

You do not understand yet what you will understand in the end .

I remember having to do a monthly progress report when I worked under Andy. I used the word 'corroborate' and he sent me a note, saying there's no such word. 'You mean "collaborate," ' he wrote. I responded with my own note and told him, ' "Corroborate" is a legitimate word.' "He sent back one final note that said, ' "Bastard" is a legitimate word, too.

if your thoughts are clear and in harmony with your mind and the truth of your surroundings, your life can be filled with all the richness the Universe has to offer.

Covering the truth is placing blindfolds over the eyes of christ

Truth is the mirror that reflects our errors and brings them to the light

if you don't know what you're talking about, then don't talk, or at least say you don't know.

you either are or aren't

To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.

If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and quitting time.

To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky.