Quotes About Clarity

Lo peor que le puede ocurrir a cualquiera es que se le comprenda por completo.

When we must deal with problems, we instinctively refuse to try the way that leads through darkness and obscurity. We wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness.

A clear differentiation of the conscious man from his unconscious is imperative, since only by the assimilation of conscious standpoints will clarity and understanding be gained, but never by a process of reduction to the unconscious backgrounds, sidelights, quarter-tones.

To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.

A symbol does not disguise, it reveals in time.

One can explain and know only if one has reduced intuitions to an exact knowledge of facts and their logical connections.

Forgetting, for instance, is a normal process, in which certain conscious ideas lose their specific energy because one's attention has been deflected. When interest turns elsewhere, it leaves in shadow the things with which one was previously concerned, just as a searchlight lights upon a new area by leaving another in darkness. This is unavoidable, for consciousness can keep only a few images in full clarity at one time, and even this clarity fluctuates.

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furnished with the dimmest light, never enough to illuminate the darkness in which they grope.

No sabes aún que el camino hacia la verdad sólo está abierto para el que carece de intenciones?

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

It came in horrible flashes, and Cassie found herself fast-forwarding, getting the gist but not dwelling a second longer than necessary on the actual details.

Sound bites in search of a paragraph...

No," Justin said, shaking his head. "They were fine with it. They're not like that. You should know them better than that." "Well, I don't," Cody said. "I met them that one time and we didn't exactly have a get-to-know-you chat. Gracie was all right, but her sister—" "Her sister what?" Justin asked, his voice cracking. "She just seemed kind of, well, unserious." Cody said.

One can speak without understanding. What

This fashion for symbolic designs that people have to puzzle out, it tires me. There are enough real mysteries in the world.' 'But you paint, sir.' 'If ever I find time I do. But I try in my poor way to show people directly and clearly, like Master Holbein. Art should resolve the mysteries of our being, not occlude them further.

You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.

Quando se deseja realmente dizer alguma coisa, as palavras são inúteis. Remexo o cérebro e elas vêm, não raras, mas toneladas. Deixam sempre um gosto de poeira na boca - a poeira do que se tentava expressar, e elas dissolveram. Quanto mais palavras ocorrem para vestir uma idéia, mais essa idéia resiste a ser identificada. As sucessivas roupas sufocam a sua nudez. E todas as palavras são uma grande bolha de sabão, às vezes brilhante, mas circundando o vazio.

Eu quero minha lucidez de qualquer jeito. Mas estava completamente louco.

This light that could be either enlightenment or madness fills my head.

Mas a verdade é que chega-se sempre longe demais quando não se quer Ir Direto Aos Fatos

Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality.

Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not.

Less mental clutter means more mental resources available for deep thinking.