Quotes About Clarity

I had a moment of clarity, saw the feeling in the heart of things, walked out to the garden crying.

So he said, 'What would you like to do? What is your desire really?' I said, 'Doctor, I don't think you're going to find this very healthy and clear, but I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I'm doing now–and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends.

Now mind is clear as a cloudless sky. Time then to make a home in wilderness. What have I done but wander with my eyes in the trees? So I will build: wife, family, and seek for neighbors. Or I perish of lonesomeness or want of food or lightning or the bear (must tame the hart and wear the bear). And maybe make an image of my wandering, a little image—shrine by the roadside to signify to traveler that I live here in the wilderness awake and at home.

Forget pleasure and Ambition

First thought, best thought.

The message is: Widen the area of consciousness.

Nobody wants to hear about your feelings, darling, tell me what you see!

I know too much and not enough.

The truth may be inconvenient, but it's better than anything else.

Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.

Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.

he had nothing to say and he said it

Aphorism, n. Predigested wisdom.

ALCOHOL, n. (Arabic al kohl, a paint for the eyes.) The essential principle of all.

Definition of positive- ´wrong at the top of your lungs´

He had learned long ago that life became much easier if you ignored what was not right before you.

It is healthy to be disabused of our self-deceptions every now and then, even if it hurts.

Truly clever things are said with short words. Long ones are used to hide stupidity

The thing about history is you don't know what the right side is till long afterwards, and by then it hardly matters." "That's the sort o' thing you hear from folk who know they're on the wrong side.

Perhaps we'll have some answers, at least, before the end. I always dreamed of dying well-informed.

La ignorancia es la más dulce de las medicinas.

It was a fact, he was only now beginning to realise, that the conversation of the drunk is only interesting to the drunk.

Oh yes, you understand better than most how this will work. Knowledge is so often the antidote to fear. But not here. Not now.