Quotes About Clarity

Io non desidero di saper di più di quello che so. So già fin troppo. Più si sa e più s'è infelici.

If you decline to understand me I wholly decline to understand you.

Don't you know ? How should I, my dear—in the absence of everything?

Whether or no he had a grand idea of the lucid, he held that nothing ever was in fact—for any one else—explained.

I just say this: that I think it's a great gain, early in life, to know the worst; then we don't live in a fool's paradise.

In short, the truth of the matter was, Nippers knew not what he wanted. Or, if he wanted any thing

he wished to do everything because he was lucid and quiet

Well, intensity with ignorance—what do you want worse?

ignis fatuus.

Limpezimea excesiv? a candorii ei era aproape provocatoare, ?i, pentru moment, am avut senza?ia c? a? fi ob?inut rezultate mai satisf?c?toare dac? ar fi fost mai pu?in naiv?.

What I want is to open up. I want to know what's inside me. I want everybody to open up. I'm like an imbecile with a can opener in his hand, wondering where to begin-- to open up the earth. I know that underneath the mess everything is marvelous. I'm sure of it.

Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

Her eyes were so big and bright, as if they saw more than they could comprehend. Bright with terror, and beneath the terror a limitless confusion. That's what made them so beautifully bright. You have to be crazy to see things so lucidly, so all at once. If you're great you can stay that way and people will believe in you, swear by you, turn the world upside down for you. But if you're only partly great, or just a nobody, then what happens to you is lost.

Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

In this chthonian world the only thing of importance is orthography and punctuation. It doesn't matter what the nature of the calamity is, only whether it is spelled right.

You see, to me it seems as though the artists, the scientists, the philosophers were grinding lenses. It's all a grand preparation for something that never comes off. Someday the lens is going to be perfect and then we're all going to see clearly, see what a staggering, beautiful world it is…

Always a good dodge to simplify your problem by removing it.

L'homme a ce choix : laisser entrer la lumière ou garder les volets fermés.

The thinking that gets you nowhere takes you everywhere.

Chaos is een woord dat we hebben uitgevonden voor een orde die we niet begrijpen.

Every so often I revolt, even against what I believe in with all my heart. I have to attack everything, myself included. Why? To simplify things.

Can you stop dead, and without thinking, radiate the truth which you know?

Only when we are truly alone does the fullness and richness of life reveal itself to us. In simplifying our lives, everything acquires a significance hitherto unknown. When we are one with ourselves the most insignificant blade of grass assumes its proper place in the universe