Quotes About Clarity

Gözlerin aç?k diye gördü?ünü san?yorsun.

T?tad man bija visai maz l?dz?ts ar to, ka atbr?vojos no saviem maldiem, - sapr?ts un skaidr? spriešanas sp?ja man nodar?ja v?l liel?ku ?aunumu.

She [nature] is the sole artist, creating extreme contrast out of the simplest material, the greatest perfection seemingly without effort, the most definite clarity always veiled with a touch of softness. Each of her works has its own being, each of her phenomena its separate idea, and yet all create a single whole.

Allwissend bin ich nicht; doch viel ist mir bewusst.

S? ridic perdeaua ?i s? trec dup? ea, asta e tot! ?i ce atâta ?ov?ial? ?i t?r?g?neal?! Pentru c? nu se ?tie ce este dincolo de ea? O însu?ire caracteristic? a spiritului nostru este aceea de-a b?nui c? e numai tulburare ?i întunecime acolo unde nu ?tim l?murit ce este.

Weil du die Augen offen hast, glaubst du, du siehst.

Nessun cupo dolore l'aveva colta più violentemente di questa chiarezza, che ella cercava di rendere ancora più lucida, come si è soliti fare tormentandosi da sé, una volta che abbiamo iniziato ad essere tormentati.

And I keep telling Stefan I'm not stupid

Johannes Wolfgang von Goethe

Went to bed with a dream. Woke up with a purpose.

It is 2:06 am, one of 1488 nights that I lie awake trying to make sense of it all, trying to find an ounce of inspiration so I can convert it to a pound of energy - Energy so needed to just win the next day.

The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.

Jatkuvasti monimutkaistuvassa, järjettömiä yhteensattumia täynnä olevassa maailmassa ei monissa tilanteissa tarvita yhtään enempää tosiasioita – olemme nytkin jo hukkumassa niihin – vaan tunnettujen tosiasioiden parempaa ymmärtämistä...

Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.

Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.

There are very few things which we know, which are not capable of being reduced to a Mathematical Reasoning; and when they cannot it's a sign our knowledge of them is very small and confused; and when a Mathematical Reasoning can be had it's as great a folly to make use of any other, as to grope for a thing in the dark, when you have a Candle standing by you.

Ambiguity supposes eventual resolution of itself whereas certitude implies further ambiguity.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

There are times, they occur with increasing frequency nowadays, when I seem to know nothing, when everything I know seems to have fallen out of my mind like a shower of rain, and I am gripped for a moment in paralysed dismay, waiting for it all to come back but with no certainty that it will.

Clarity believes in all of that. Because she's - well, you know her. Generous and kind and loves everyone - because she's that way, those ideas take on a particularly important meaning to her. She doesn't know... that it wasn't that she was good and kind because of the words, but that the words meant those things because she was good and kind.

I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.

Nobody knew how to be what they were right.

St. Thérèse could not, of course, have suffered all the attacks on the will that we endure. But she deliberately did her utmost to avoid all distraction, both before and after her entry into Carmel. ... And we, too, could seek to strengthen our will by avoiding every distraction that does not belong to our station in life, and with the will strong, even these distractions would cease to turn us more than momentarily from our path.

We have no word for this darkness. It is not night and it is not ignorance. From time to time we all cross this darkness, seeing everything: so much everything that we can distinguish nothing. You know it, Marisa, better than I. It's the interior from which everything came.