Quotes About Clarity

When the habit of seeing things as they are turns into a mania, we lament the madman we have been and are no longer.

C? s-a spus totul, c? nu mai e nimic de spus — o ÅŸtim, o simÅ£im. Dar ceea ce simÅ£im mai puÅ£in e c? aceast? eviden?? confer? limbajului un statut straniu, chiar îngrijor?tor, care-l elibereaz?. Cuvintele sunt în sfîrÅŸit salvate, pentru c? au încetat s? tr?iasc?.

Voi ajunge vreodata atat de pur, ca nu ma voi putea oglindi decat in lacrimi de sfinti?

Micsorarea luciditatii este un semn de vitalitate a dragostei.

The man too lucid to worship will also be too lucid to wreck, or will wreck only his … rebellions; for what is the use of rebelling only to discover, afterwards, a universe intact? A paltry monologue.

Nothing desiccates a mind so much as its repugnance to conceive obscure ideas.

I dream of a world where one could die for a comma.

Iubirea este o fug? de adev?r.Åži iubim cu adev?rat numai când nu vrem adev?rul.Pe fiinÅ£a ce o iubim o cunoaÅŸtem cu adev?rat numai dup? ce n-o mai iubim,când am devenit lucizi,clari,seci ÅŸi goi.Åži în iubire nu putem cunoaÅŸte,fiindc? persoana ce o iubim actualizeaz?,numai,un potenÅ£ial l?untric de iubire.Realitatea primordial? ÅŸi efectiv? este iubirea din noi.Pentru aceasta iubim.Iubesc iubirea din mine,iubesc iubirea mea.

Nu exist? salvare prin nebunie, fiindc? nu exist? om cu presentimentul nebuniei care s? nu se team? de lucidit??ile eventuale într-o asemenea stare. Ai vrea haosul, dar È›i-e fric? de luminile din el.

El hastío es un vértigo, pero un vértigo tranquilo, monótono; es la revelación de la insignificancia universal, es la certidumbre llevada hasta el estupor o hasta la suprema clarividencia de que no se puede, de que no se debe hacer nada en este mundo ni en el otro, que no existe ningún mundo que pueda convenirnos y satisfacernos.

If there is so much discomfort and ambiguity in lucidity, it is because lucidity is the result of the poor use to which we have put our sleepless nights.

Conversation is fruitful only between minds given to consolidating their perplexities.

Quando non si hanno più illusioni su di sè, non se ne conservano sugli altri.

After the Spanish publication of the 'Précis,' two Andalusian students asked me if it was possible to live without "fundamentación." I answered that it was true that I had found no solid basis anywhere and that I had nonetheless managed to endure, for with the years one got used to everything, even vertigo. Then, too, one does not constantly keep watch and interrogate oneself, absolute lucidity being incompatible with breathing.

Lucidity is the only vice which makes us free—free in a desert.

Lucidity is the only vice which make us free - free in a desert.

The universal view melts things into a blur

If the French have loaded nostalgia with too much clarity, if they have deprived it of a certain intimate and dangerous prestige; Sehnsucht, on the other hand, exhausts what is insoluble in the conflicts of the German soul, torn between the Heimat and the Infinite.

no man concerned with his own equilibrium may exceed a certain degree of lucidity and analysis.

A r?mâne cu mintea întreag? e un privilegiu ce ne poate fi retras.

The clear-sighted person who understands himself, explains himself, justifies himself, and dominates his action will never make a memorable gesture. Psychology is the hero's grave.

After the Spanish publication of the 'Précis,' two Andalusian students asked me if it was possible to live without 'fundamentación.' I answered that it was true that I had found no solid basis anywhere and that I had nonetheless managed to endure, for with the years one got used to everything, even vertigo. Then, too, one does not constantly keep watch and interrogate oneself, absolute lucidity being incompatible with breathing.

To know, in vulgar terms, is to get over something: to know, in absolute terms, is to get over everything. Illumination represents one further step: the certainty that henceforth we will never again be taken in, a last glance at illusion.

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