Quotes About Clarity

Faithfulness is the antidote to bitterness and confusion.

Don't mistake your assumptions for the truth.

Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor what they seem to be. They are what they are.

Open your eyes: See things for what they really are, thereby sparing yourself the pain of false attachments and avoidable devastation.

Philosophy's purpose is to illuminate the ways our soul has been infected by unsound beliefs, untrained tumultuous desires, and dubious life choices and preferences that are unworthy of us. Self-scrutiny applied with kindness is the main antidote.

A fool cannot be convinced or even compelled to renounce his folly.

When you feel burning desire for something that appears pleasureful, you are like a person under a spell. Instead of acting on impulse, take a step back—wait till the enchantment fades and you can see things as they are.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going

Instead of acting on impulse, take a step back—wait till the enchantment fades and you can see things as they are.

The soul is like a bowl of water, with the soul's impressions like the rays of light that strike the water. [21] Now, if the water is disturbed, the light appears to be disturbed together with it – though of course it is not.

remain steadfast in pursuing your mission, always willing to shed distractions.

Pidä silmiesi edessä joka päivä kuolema ja maanpako ja kaikki kauheana näyttäytyvä, ennen kaikkea kuolema. Silloin et koskaan ajattele mitään matalamielistä etkä himoitse mitään likaa.

Speak only what is useful and beneficial.

Show them where they go wrong and you will find that they'll reform. But unless they see it, they are stuck with nothing better than their usual opinion as their practical guide.

Will you never come to a realisation of who you are, what you have been born for and the purpose for which the gift of vision was made in our case?

Do you realize that you are awake?' 'No, any more than when I dream and have the impression that I am awake.' 'And is the one impression in no way different from the other?' 'No.

Jeff: I don't need a limousine to know who I am. At least I know I don't know.

Jeff: At least I admit that I don't know. I know that things are fucked up, beyond belief, and I have nothing original to say about it...

Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

If a doctrine is not unintelligible, it has to be vague; and if neither unintelligible nor vague, it has to be unverifiable.

You must have a goal in life. We all should have goals. Or we are lost.

I said, "This is what happens when you find Gideon." Eyes

A smart person ought to be smart enough to see clearly the limitations of his species.