Quotes About Clarity

We wish nothing, save to be alone and to learn, and to feel as if with each day our sight were growing sharper than the hawk's and clearer than rock crystal.

This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having felt everything one could feel.

He was searching for words to name his meaning without naming it, she thought, to make her understand that which he did not want to be understood.

you've made a mistake already. By asking me. By asking anyone. Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want?

They used to rush through here, and it was wonderful to watch, it was the hurry of men who knew where they were going and were eager to get there. Now they're hurrying because they are afraid. It's not a purpose that drives them, it's fear.

I do not care to be admired causelessly, emotionally, intuitively, instinctively—or blindly. I do not care for blindness in any form, I have too much to show—or for deafness, I have too much to say. I do not care to be admired by anyone's heart—only by someone's head.

It is so commonplace," she drawled, "to be understood by everybody.

Roark spoke quietly. He was the only man in the room who felt certain of his own words.

It was as if he were a single whole, grasped by her first glance at him, like some irreducible absolute, like an axiom not to be explained any further, as if she knew everything about him by direct perception, and what awaited her now was only the process of identifying her knowledge.

Quédate aquí hasta que tú misma contestes. No tienes sitio adonde ir; no puedes moverte; no puedes empezar a planearte un camino hasta... hasta que sepas lo suficiente como para escoger un final.

He would think of it later, he thought; one moves step by step and one must keep moving. For the moment, with an unnatural clarity, with a brutal simplification that made it almost easy, his consciousness contained nothing but one thought: It must not stop me. The sentence hung alone, with no past and no future. He did not think of what it was that must not stop him, or why this sentence was such a crucial absolute. It held him and he obeyed. He went step by step.

She had been proved right so eloquently, she had thought, that comments were unnecessary.

An honest man does not desire until he has identified the object of his desire. He

If one asks him the reasons of his convictions, one will discover that his convictions are a thin, fragile film floating over a vacuum, like an oil slick in empty space—and one will be shocked by the number of questions it had never occurred to him to ask.

There was nothing else, nothing to dilute it, so that one could admire naked purpose and the ingenuity that had achieved it.

wondering how one went about forcing one's mind into blankness, particularly after a lifetime lived on the axiom that the constant, clearest, most ruthless function of his rational faculty was his foremost duty.

Free scientific inquiry? The first adjective is redundant.

Simpler, Peter, simpler, more direct, as honest as you can make of a dishonest thing.

Trust your subconscious. If it does not deliver the kind of material you want, it will at least give you the evidence of what is wrong.

I'll give you a hint. Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong." "Francisco

Ni la vida ni la felicidad pueden lograrse persiguiendo caprichos irracionales.

Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which will necessarily profit. Such are the reasons why—when one is asked: "Surely you don't think in terms of black-and-white, do you?"—the proper answer (in essence, if not in form) should be: "You're damn right I do!

There are no contradictions. When you think you found one. Check your premises.

No saben por que están aquí. En cambio, nosotros lo sabemos. No saben quién es su prisionero. Nosotros, sí. No saben por qué sus jefes quieren que lo vigilen. En cambio, nosotros sabemos muy bien por qué queremos sacarlo de aquí. No se dan cuenta del objetivo de su lucha, pero nosotros sí sabemos cuál es el de la nuestra. Si mueren no sabrán por qué. nosotros sí lo sabemos.