Quotes About Clarity

Consequently, we find it convenient to be misled by the inadequacies of language and to believe (not always, of course, but just when it suits us) that things, persons and events are as completely distinct and separate one from another as the words, by means of which we think about them.

You can't learn a science unless you know what it's all about.

You'll have a better understanding of what was actually done if you start by knowing what had to be done - what always and everywhere has to be done by anyone who has a clear idea about what's what.

Things somehow seem more real and vivid when one can apply somebody else's ready-made phrase about them.

Deja de pensar tonterías y actúa.

We must learn how to handle words effectively; but at the same time we must preserve and, if necessary, intensify our ability to look at the world directly and not through that half opaque medium of concepts, which distorts every given fact into the all too familiar likeness of some generic label or explanatory abstraction.

Las palabras pueden ser como los rayos X si se emplean adecuadamente: pasan a través de todo. Las lees y te traspasan. Ésta es una de las cosas que intento enseñar a mis alumnos: a escribir de manera penetrante.

The meditative eye can look through any single object and see, as through a window, the entire cosmos.

Her ÅŸeyin ula??labilir olduÄŸu bir dünyada hiçbir ÅŸeyin anlam? yoktur

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.

I'm thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feeling that I've got something important to say and the power to say it - only I don't know what it is, and I can't make any use of the power.

Do not strive to seek after the true," writes a Zen master, "only cease to cherish opinions.

Wisdom never puts enmity anywhere

Las palabras pueden ser como los rayos X, si se emplean adecuadamente: pasan a través de todo.

Ve sólo Uno en todas las cosas; es el segundo el que te descarría

Rije?i mogu djelovati poput rendgenskih zraka ako se ispravno koriste - prodrijeti kroz bilo što. Pro?itaš, a one prodru kroz tebe.

Heaven entails hell, and 'going to heaven' is no more liberation than is the descent into horror. Heaven is merely a vantage point from which the divine Ground can be more clearly seen than on the level of ordinary individualized existence.

I don't understand anything,' she said with decision, determined to preserve her incomprehension intact.

Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly – they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced. That

Las palabras pueden ser como los rayos X, si se emplean adecuadamente: pasan a través de todo. Las lees y te traspasan.

Men find a new universe of thought and feeling, clearer and more comprehensible than the universe of daily experience.

Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly – they'll go through anything.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly—they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.

in a crisis a man learnt what was real to him and what was unreal; that he became himself, choosing what he really needed.