Quotes About Clarity

last everything comes between you and what you'd like to be, and you've lost your true self forever.

La esterilidad crónica del alma y la incertidumbre ante el futuro se deben claramente al exterminio del espíritu.

I'm really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don't remember!

Thinking little at all about nothing in particular.

Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.

Where's your common sense? None of those books agree with each other. You've been locked up here for years with a regular damned Tower of Babel. Snap out of it! The people in those books never lived. Come on now!

It was a simple thing. All terror is a simplicity. (Interval In Sunlight)

They got Indian vision and can sight back further than you and me will ever sight ahead.

He slapped her face with amazing objectivity and repeated the question.

Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.

Cuando en la oscuridad olvidamos lo cerca que estamos del vacío, algún día se presentará y se apoderará de nosotros, porque habremos olvidado lo terrible y real que puede ser.

Si no quieres que un hombre se sienta políticamente desgraciado, no le enseñes dos aspectos de una misma cuestión, para preocuparle; enséñale sólo uno. O, mejor aún, no le des ninguno.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the furthest of the two!

Si no quieres que un hombre sea políticamente desgraciado, no lo preocupes mostrándole dos aspectos de una misma cuestión. Muéstrale uno.

You see, no one Believes a really all-encompassing and protective love when they see it clear.

At least you were a fool about the right things

You can't build a house without nails and wood. If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.

È felice lei? domandò. Sono cosa? gridò Montag

Jim gazed fiercely deep into the bottomless sea, where now only the pure light glanced back at itself (Bradbury 63). This text not only describes what Jim is seeing, but also scared of what he does not know. He sees that is glanced back, of how he described the maze.

Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found

Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.' Alexander Pope.

It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.