Quotes About Clarity

When you ask people if they are monogamous, I suggest you ask them first what their definition of monogamy is.

Tycho Brahe clung to a lousy idea, Hans. That's all it was. People like us—you must know this by now—we can't do that. We know damn well when we're right. We know a long time before anyone else even suspects it." He cleared his throat. "Or when we're wrong. That's how we live. That's how we die.

I learned that evening that rain falls equally on all things. Jealousy, fear, and anger are obstacles to a knight's first goal: a clear mind.

Oddly, with discipline, structure, and order, you will find freedom, anything is possible. Without it, locating your saddle may take all morning.

Per un breve periodo si può far finta di non sapere la verità. È come trattenere il respiro. Ma alla fine bisogna riprendere aria. Più in profondità si seppellisce una bugia, più forte è la pressione quando esplode.

Another important statement

Sometimes I long for a convent cell, with the sublime wisdom of centuries set out on bookshelves all along the wall and a view across the cornfields--there must be cornfields and they must wave in the breeze--and there I would immerse myself in the wisdom of the ages and in myself. Then I might perhaps find peace and clarity. But that would be no great feat. It is right here, in this very place, in the here and the now, that I must find them.

The difficulty that accompanies you is less like the dark than a trusted lantern to see your way by.

It's all right, I want to say to the students who write to me, for things to be what they appear to be, and for words to mean what they say. It's all right, too, for words and appearances to mean more than one thing--ambiguity is a fact of life.

No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose.

I've said what I had to say.

The first thing we notice about our story is that we can't really see the solid outlines of it--it seems bathed in something of its own. It is wrapped in an atmosphere. This is what makes it shine, perhaps, as well as what initially obscures its plain, real shape.

Truth has only two sides, but it's the third side that's best.

Eroarea lui André Breton este,poate,de a se fi luat prea în serios.Trebuie s? te iei doar puÈ›in în serios,altminteri totul e inconsistent.Dar dac? te iei prea în serios,nu mai exist? libertate,e gata puÈ™c?ria,strangularea.Nu mai ai cu adev?rat libertate de miÈ™care.Nu te mai miÈ™ti,eÈ™ti prins,eÈ™ti una cu lucrurile,nu mai ai distanÈ›a necesar? de a vedea clar.Trebuie s? fii numai pe jum?tate serios.

IL était comme un de ces voyageurs qui s'attardent dans les auberges en oubliant que le but du voyage n'est pas l'auberge

The more one concentrates on breathing, the more the external stimuli fade into the background.

only the truly detached can understand what is meant by "detachment"

Nu vedeti, am spus, toti sînt închisi în sicrie transparente.

When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That's why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was all about.

Transforming our intuitions into articulate form is precisely the purpose of this book.

LAVINIA: I love everything that grows simply-- up toward the sun-- everything that's straight and strong! I hate what's warped and twists and eats into itself and dies for a lifetime in shadow...

He who believes needs no explanation.

How little common sense this man (Clay) displays…Oh, that mine enemy would write a book!... Silence would have been to him wisdom.

I knew that no matter how confusing things get, how many voices are shouting lies, how many wrong turns you take, how many dead ends you run into, there is always, always the truth to find, always the truth somewhere, burning, shining.