Quotes About Clarity

Hiçbir ÅŸey zekay? tutkulu bir kuÅŸku kadar bileyemez. Hiçbir ÅŸey olgunlaÅŸmam?? bir zihnin bütün olanaklar?n? karanl?kta kaybolan bir iz kadar harekete geçiremez.

And it is only delusion, and not knowledge, that bestows happiness.

her bir ayr?nt?y? s?? bellekten deÄŸil de, sadece yürekten gelebilecek bir berrakl?kla görebiliyorum.

Belli bir hedefi olmayan her hayat bir hatad?r.

An intellect that does not have a fixed target is as good as lost. Whoever wants to be everywhere is nowhere. No wind blows for him who has no harbour.

To free oneself from fear and hope, belief and superstition. To be free of convictions and parties.

To be free of customs: "Custom clouds the true face of things".

and there's no point in a life lived aimlessly.

El placer no está nunca en la claridad y en la prudencia, siempre en la embriagadez, en la superabundancia, en la ilusión; un brote de locura corresponde siempre a toda vida verdadera.

Hiçbir arzum yok, yeryüzünde masum kalmak d???nda.

Ä°nsan zekas?n? hiçbir ÅŸey tutkulu bir ÅŸüpheden fazla keskinleÅŸtirmez, karanl?klara uzanan bir izin peÅŸinden ?srarla gitmek kadar baÅŸka hiçbir ÅŸey o güne kadar olgunlaÅŸmam?? zekay? geliÅŸtirmez.

no estoy cansado. Sólo hay una cosa que cansa a los hombres: la vacilación, la incertidumbre. Cualquier acción libera nuestro ánimo, incluso la peor resulta mejor que la inacción.

How to remain free? How to preserve the incorruptible lucidity of my spirit faced with all the threats and dangers of sectarian turmoil?

La vérité à demi ne vaut rien, il la faut toujours entière.

Die zweite war, daß sie fast immer in ihrem Leben die einfachsten sind.

He spoke fluently as if he were reading from an invisible page, and yet each individual sentence was so plastically and clearly formed that, had it been taken down in shorthand, his conversation would have been a perfect exposition, ready for the press.

M]y favorite teacher was explaining that you don't say but however . These are pleonasms: the use of more words than necessary to express an idea. There are times in life that are very but however .

don't understand

I found, after spending ten years as a journalist, learning to say exactly what I meant in short sentences, that I must learn, if I was to achieve literature and favourable reviews, to write as though I were not quite sure about what I meant but was jolly well going to say something all the same in sentences as long as possible.

Between overstatement and understatement lies one hundred per cent.

Darum geht es nicht!" antwortete Eleanor. Dieser Satz machte Franklin Sorge, denn seit der Zeit mit Flora Reed wusste er nur zu gut: ein Streit, bei dem einer dem anderen erklärte, worum es ging, war ausweglos.

Listening to Aunt Eliza, one could learn that when people talk too fast the content becomes as superfluous as the speed.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness