Quotes About Clarity

Wise is the one who does not seek.

Per capire, mi sono distrutto. Capire è dimenticare di amare.

All of us are near-sighted, except on the inside. Only our dreaming sees with clear vision.

I've always felt an almost physical repugnance for secret things — intrigues, diplomacy, secret societies, occultism

To be lucid is to be indisposed towards oneself. The only legitimate state of mind when looking inside oneself is that of someone who sees only nerves and indecisions.

Poseemos algo? Si ni siquiera sabemos lo que somos, ¿cómo hemos de saber lo que poseemos?

No el amor, sino los alrededores es lo que vale la pena... La represión del amor ilumina sus fenómenos con mucha más claridad que la misma experiencia.

Sólo sabe escribir quien es capaz de ver sus propios sueños con nitidez (y es así) o ver en sueños la vida, verla de forma inmaterial, haciéndole fotos con la máquina del devaneo, sobre la cual los rayos de lo pesado, de lo útil y de lo restringido no pueden actuar, revelándose en negro la placa espiritual.

L?udat fie Domnul pentru faptul c? nu sunt bun, Åži c? am egoismul natural al florilor Sau al râurilor ce îÅŸi urmeaz? calea Preocupate f?r? s?-ÅŸi de-a seama Doar s? înfloreasc? sau s? curg? la vale. Iat? singura misiune pe-aceast? lume, Asta ÅŸi numai asta- adic? a exista cât se poate de clar, Åži a ÅŸti s? o faci f?r? s? te gândeÅŸti c? exiÅŸti.

I'M HELD by nothing, I hold on to nothing, I belong to nothing.

What matters is to know how to see, ... To know how to see when seeing

I mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet a man that can take in hand to tell a story and not make a balls of it while he's at it. I like to know where I am, do you know. Everything has a beginning and an end.

I looked at my hand through it and saw nothing that was recognisable. Then I looked at several other things but saw nothing that I could clearly see. MacCruiskeen took it back with a smile at my puzzled eye. It magnifies to invisibility, he explained. It makes everything so big that there is room in the glass for only the smallest particle of it—not enough of it to make it different from any other thing that is dissimilar.

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.

I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.

I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again.

I do not know You God because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.

The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.

You can't just say NO, he said. You got to do NO. You got to show it. You got to show you mean it by doing it. You got to show you're not going to do one thing by doing another. You got to make an end of it. One way or another.

Most things are beyond me, Block said. I ain't found anything yet that I thoroughly understood

I write to discover what I know

Some of us have taken off our blindfolds and see that there's nothing to see. It's a kind of salvation.

Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete.