Quotes About Clarity

Yang terakhir harus jatuh sebelum yang pertama tahu apa yang terjadi. Cuma itu satu-satunya cara - Zulaika

The key to real happiness in this world is appreciating what you have, and knowing what you want. Everything else is just noise.

A good education helps us make sense of the world and find our way in it

What are smart people for if not to untangle tangled things?

Do I express my thoughts lucidly? I think I do. What is my life? An absurdity.

Zupe?nie jasne – potwierdzi? kot, zapominaj?c, ?e mia? by? milcz?c? halucynacj?.

Shvatite, jezik može sakriti istinu, ali o?i nikad!

DoÄŸruyu söylemek kolayd?r, ayr?ca insana keyif verir.

Tout à coup on perd pied dans les ténèbres fangeuses du sommeil, mais un tressaillement, et on refait surface aussitôt.

Ne obmanjuj makar samoga sebe.

We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has.

On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.

What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.

We go through the present blindfolded... Only later, when the blindfold is removed and we examine the past, do we realise what we've been through and understand what it means. 

Man proceeds in the fog. But when he looks back to judge people of the past, he sees no fog on their path. From his present, which was their faraway future, their path looks perfectly clear to him, good visibility all the way. Looking back, he sees the path, he sees the people proceeding, he sees their mistakes, but not the fog.

Seeing is limited by two borders: Strong light, which blinds, and total darkness.

Dictionary of Misunderstood Words

Man passes through the present with his eyes blindfolded. He is permitted merely to sense and guess at what he is actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can he glance at the past and find out what he has experienced and what meaning it has had.

Delante hay una mentira comprensible y tras ella reluce una verdad incomprensible.

and she thinks, almost joyfully, that it's fine this way because the truth is finally revealed: she feels no need to understand him or to have him understand her.

Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words.

It was gratitude that decided the issue, most likely. Human decisions are terribly simple.

Un valor vulnerado y una ilusión desenmascarada suelen tener el cuerpo igual de mortificado, se parecen, y no hay nada más fácil que confundirlos.

le but que l'on poursuit est toujours voilé. Une jeune fille qui a envie de se marier a envie d'une chose qui lui est tout à fait inconnue. Le jeune homme qui court après la gloire n'a aucune idée de ce qu'est la gloire. Ce qui donne un sens à notre conduite nous est toujours totalement inconnu. (partie III, ch. 10)