Quotes About Clarity

Since Mrs Pargeter had always favoured pulling bushes up by the roots rather than beating about them, she again asked directly what his problem was or who was making his life difficult

To utter a word and meaning nothing by it is unworthy of a philosopher. Berkeley

The art of number theory is so abstract that it is frighteningly easy to wander off the path of logic and be completely unaware that one has strayed into absurdity

La reconciliación sólo es posible sobre la base del conocimiento de la realidad

Think simple, Murray kept insisting: Think simple.

My overflowing leisure handed me the world and at the same time prevented me from seeing it. Just as the sun, filtering through the closed venetian blinds on a hot afternoon, makes the whole magnificence of summer blaze in my mind; whereas if I face its direct harsh glare it blinds me.

Mais le pire, quand on habite une prison sans barreaux, c'est qu'on n'a pas même conscience des écrans qui bouchent l'horizon; j'errais à travers un épais brouillard, et je le croyais transparent. Les choses qui m'échappaient, je n'en entrevoyais même pas la présence.

Poder conversar é uma grande sorte, disse ela. É compreensível que, nos casais que não sabem se aproveitar das palavras, os mal-entendidos formem bolas de neve e acabem por estragar tudo entre eles.

Sin embargo, le pregunté si me encontraba inteligente. Sí, ciertamente, pero la inteligencia no es una facultad separada; cuando doy vueltas en mis obsesiones mi inteligencia ya no está disponible.

I gave a weak smile; he came close and put an arm around my shoulders; I clung to him and wept quietly. The warm physical pleasure of tears running down my cheek. What a relief! It is so tiring to hate someone you love.

Perché le parole, questa precisione brutale che maltratta le nostre complicazioni?

My eyes followed André. Maybe it is during those moments, as I watch him disappear, that he exists for me with the most overwhelming clarity: his tall shape grows smaller, each pace marking out the path of his return; it vanishes and the street seems to be empty; but in fact it is a field of energy that will lead him back to me as to his natural habitat: I find this certainty even more moving than his presence.

Para saber lo que es mío, es necesario saber lo que hago verdaderamente.

En la Naturaleza, nada está nunca completamente claro: los tipos, macho y hembra, no siempre se distinguen con nitidez.

Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.

Cut away ruthlessly everything that is imaginary in your feelings.

Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.

If there is a real desire, if the thing desired is really light, the desire for light produces it. There is a real desire when there is an effort of attention. It is really light that is desired if all other incentives are absent.

Attachment is a manufacturer of illusions and whoever wants reality ought to be detached.

L'intelligence n'a rien à trouver, elle a à déblayer. Elle n'est bonne qu'aux tâches serviles.

En tout cas le plus grand malheur pour nous serait de périr impuissants à la fois à réussir et à comprendre.

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.

Méthode pour comprendre les images, les symboles. etc. Non pas essayer de les interpréter, mais les regarder jusqu'à ce que la lumière jaillisse.

C'est en désirant la vérité à vide et sans tenter d'en deviner d'avance le contenu qu'on reçoit la lumière. C'est là tout le mécanisme de l'attention.