Quotes About Clarity

Readers, friends, less than friends, enemies, Critics! Here I am at it again with Book I of Guignol! Don't judge me too soon! Wait awhile for what's to follow! Book II! Book III! it all clears up! develops, straightens out! As is, ¾ of it's missing! Is that a way to do things? It had to be printed fast because with things as they are you don't know who's living or dead!

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Sometimes you have to look at what's really bad," he said, "to see what's really good.

Language supplies us with ways to express ever subtler levels of meaning, but does that imply language gives meaning, or robs us of it when we are at a loss to name things?

I think, perhaps, we have very mistaken ideas about heaven -- what it is and what it holds for us. I don't think it can be so very different from life here as most people seem to think. I believe we'll just go on living, a good deal as we live here -- and be OURSELVES just the same -- only it will be easier to be good and to -- follow the highest. All the hindrances and perplexities will be taken away, and we shall see clearly.

When a man don't know his own mind, Miss Shirley, ma'am, how's a poor woman going to be sure of it?

You don't know love when you see it. You've tricked something out with your imagination that you think love, and you expect the real thing to look like that. There, that's the first sensible thing I've ever said in my life. I wonder how I managed it?

Don't let a three-o'clock-at-night feeling fog your soul.

For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.

My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.

Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.

If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.

Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.

I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.

Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.

Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.

Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that no force can open the door until just this word has been hit upon, and once it is hit upon any child can open it.

The atmosphere surrounding this problem is terrible. Dense clouds of language lie about the crucial point. It is almost impossible to get through to it.

Some people's taste is to an educated taste as is the visual impression received by a purblind eye to that of a normal eye. Where a normal eye will see something clearly articulated, a weak eye will see a blurred patch of colour.

There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man—but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.

The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness.

The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.

In practice, language is always more or less vague, so that what we assert is never quite precise.