Quotes About Clarity

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

The word progressive, for example. It will never be known, said Charles Peguy, ''what acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of not looking sufficiently progressive. Yet the word is meaningless until we add meaning to it. It suggests movement in the right direction, but we have no idea what direction that is until we learn what goal we are progressing towards and why we should move toward it. Progressives seldom say; they just assume that everyone knows.

What is it I always say?" The Cat, Sacrenoir, and the others bandied uncertain glances about. "Don't be stupid?" ventured Alistaire. "I should kill you now?" offered The Cat. "Do I have to murder everyone myself?" tried Siren. "No, idiots! When in doubt, go for the head. That's what I always say.

I could not resist the clarity of the world in books, the incredibly satisfying way in which life became weighty and accessible. Books were reality. I hadn't made up my own mind about my own life, a vague, dreamy affair, amorphous and dimly perceived, without beginning or end.

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

How easy it was to mistake clear reasoning for correct reasoning!

Never obliterate a man unthinkingly, the way an entire fief might do it through some due process of law . Always do it for an overriding purpose—and know your purpose !

Each of us comes into being knowing who he is and what he is supposed to do.' ... 'Small children know,' Leto said. 'It's only after adults have confused them that children hide this knowledge even from themselves.

Too Much Knowledge never makes for Simple Decisions.

I have said: Blow out the lamp! Day is here! And you keep saying: Give me a lamp so I can find the day.

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife—chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now, it's complete because it's ended here.

Better the complexities one thought he knew than the complexities which defied understanding.

Beware jargon. It usually hides ignorance and carries little knowledge.

Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.

I warn you that ignorance thrives on hysteria.

attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.

Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

La esperanza ofusca la observación.

Previše znanja nikad ne dopušta jednostavne odluke.

What are you saying? Each of us comes into being knowing who he is and what he is supposed to do.' Moneo opened his mouth but closed it without speaking. 'Small children know,' Leto said. 'It's only after adults have confused them that children hide this knowledge even from themselves. Moneo! Uncover yourself!

The more I find out, the more I realize that I don't know what's going on." "How fortunate that you have discovered the way of wisdom

You have eyes, yet cannot see without light.

Cualquier camino, si se sigue hasta el fin, no conduce exactamente a ningún lugar. Escalad tan sólo un poco la montaña para comprobar si es una montaña. Desde la cima de la montaña, no podréis ver la montaña.»