Quotes About Clarity

I think we are only afraid of ourselves," the doctor said slowly. "No," Luke said. "Of seeing ourselves clearly and without disguise." "Of knowing what we really want

People, the doctor said sadly, are always so anxious to get things out into the open where they can put a name to them, even a meaningless name, so long as it has something of a scientific ring.

You bring more light into this room than the window

Veniamo tutti misurati, buoni e cattivi, dal male che facciamo agli altri. Io avevo creato un mostro e l'avevo lasciato libero di andare in giro per il mondo, e – poiché l'ammissione è, dopotutto, il dolore più crudele – ammetto che avevo visto tutto con chiarezza e lucidità.

You know you're about as forthcoming as a mime.

Well look and see what this very same Job has to say, that book which everyone reads, but no one understands

The true purpose [of Zen] is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes... Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

I don't want to die in darkness any thicker than this. I want to bring some kind of resolution in my life.

If you don't know why,I could never explain it to you.

Uncertainty is as good a way as any to kill a story.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

The profound obscurity of the background of our ignorance is scarcely illuminated by a few glimmers of insight.

The injunction that before making a final decision in any matter one should sleep on it for a night is obviously fully justified.

It is almost humiliating that, after working so long, we should still be having difficulty in understanding the most fundamental facts. But we have made up our minds to simplify nothing and to hide nothing. If we cannot see things clearly we will at least see clearly what the obscurities are.

Rather than write about what you know, you told us, write about what you see. Assume that you know very little and that you'll never know much until you learn how to see.

She saw the world as if in a vision: a dark room into which a beam of sunlight fell, with dust motes tumbling in and out, from darkness to light, and she felt that now she had finally moved into the sunbeam.

Så blev allting borta i en mörkröd dimma och ett brus, som först tilltog skrämmande, men så dog dånet småningom bort, och den röda dimman blev tunnare och ljusare, och till sist var den som ett lätt morgondis, innan solen bryter igenom, och det var alldeles ljudlöst, och hon visste att nu dog hon -

I stared until I was blind at the fact that Otto didn't understand me. It never occurred to me that I didn't understand him.

It was as if I had been mute all my life and only now had discovered what words sounded like.

getting clear about the right categories with which to understand human motivation, is an important practical task.

our ideas and concepts can be compared with the lenses through which we see the world. In philosophy the lens is itself the topic of study. Success will be a matter not of how much you know at the end, but of what you can do when the going gets tough: when the seas of argument rise, and confusion breaks out. Success will mean taking seriously the implications of ideas. WHAT IS THE POINT?

Reflection enables us to step back, to see our perspective on a situation as perhaps distorted or blind, at the very least to see if there is argument for preferring our ways, or whether it is just subjective.