Quotes About Clarity

Arrêtez-vous ! Arrachez-vous au vertige, réfléchissez !

Ils venaient de prendre conscience de l'immensité de leur ignorance.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

The first was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such; that is to say, carefully to avoid precipitancy and prejudice, and to comprise nothing more in my judgment than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt.

Those who reason most powerfully and are the most successful at ordering their thoughts so as to make them clear and intelligible will always be best able to persuade others of what they say, even if they speak in the thickest of dialects

Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.

we ought not meanwhile to make use of doubt in the conduct of life.

By intuition I mean, not the wavering assurance of the senses, or the deceitful judgment of a misconstructed imagination, but a conception, formed by unclouded mental attention, so easy and distinct as to leave no room for doubt in regard to the thing we are understanding.

The reason for this is that every person permits himself the liberty of making guesses in the matter of an obscure subject with more confidence than in one which is clear, and that it is much easier to have some vague notion about any subject, no matter what, than to arrive at the real truth about a single question however simple that may be. But

I had always a most earnest desire to know how to distinguish the true from the false, in order that I might be able clearly to discriminate the right path in life, and proceed it in with confidence.

It is enough that I can understand one thing, clearly and distinctly, without another in order to be certain that one thing is distinct from the other.

Those who possess the strongest reasoning and who best order their thoughts in order to make them clear and intelligible can always best persuade others of what they are proposing, even if they were to speak only Low Breton and had never learned rhetoric.

Science in its entirety is true and evident cognition.

Tüm yöntem akl?n birtak?m gerçeklere varmak için çabas?n? yönlendirmek zorunda olduÄŸu konular?n s?ras?na ve konumuna dayan?r. Bunu sürdürebilmek için güçlük içeren ve muÄŸlak önermeleri aÅŸamal? olarak daha basite indirgemek, sonra da bunlar?n sezgisinden hareket ederek ayn? ÅŸekilde diÄŸer önermelerin bilgisine varmak gerekir.

We should totally focus the vision of natural intelligence on the smallest and easiest things, and we should dwell on them for a long time, so long, until we have become accustomed to intuiting the truth distinctly and perspicuously.

Viver sem filosofia é exatamente como ter os olhos fechados sem nunca procurar abri-los.

If philosophers were always in agreement about the meaning of words, almost all their disputes would evaporate.

I did not imitate the skeptics who doubt only for doubting's sake, and pretend to be always undecided; on the contrary, my whole intention was to arrive at a certainty, and to dig away the drift and the sand until I reached the rock or the clay beneath.

punto de partida es la duda metódica. La duda cartesiana no es escepticismo, sino un procedimiento dialéctico de investigación, encaminado a desprender y aislar la primera verdad evidente, la primera idea clara y distinta, la primera naturaleza simple.

Nous sommes dans l'inconcevable, mais avec des repères éblouissants.

We are being torn apart between the avidity for knowing and the despair of having known. The goad will not renounce its sting and we our hope.

Est-ce la porte de notre fin obscure, demandais-tu ? Non. Nous sommes dans l'inconcevable, mais avec des repères éblouissants.

La lucidité est la blessure la plus rapprochée du soleil.