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Quotes About Clarity

Well, you don't get to have any of my bullshit. I'm keeping it." Okay, and that didn't sound childish. Not at all.
~ Ilona Andrews
Say 'pop.' " "Pop?" "That was the sound of me pulling your head out of your ass."
~ Ilona Andrews
There were so many things I wanted to say at once if the words would just get out of each other's way. Fine.
~ Ilona Andrews
yep Eloquence 'R' Us. When in trouble, keep it monosyllabic-safer that way.
~ Ilona Andrews
I don't believe you." "Wait." She held up her hand. "Let me check if I care." Hugh glared at her. "No," she said. "Apparently, I don't. It's good that we got that straightened out.
~ Ilona Andrews
Felix, how do you know when Hugh wants you to do something?" "He tells me," Felix said. "Ah!" She clapped her hands together. "He tells you. Imagine that. So you are able to communicate with actual words rather than grunts and snarls.
~ Ilona Andrews
was a granite island of calm. When the turbulent storms rocked her inner world, until she was no longer sure where reality ended and the hungry madness inside her began, she clung to that island
~ Ilona Andrews
You ask the Consort. The Consort knows everything." "Oh," Hakeem said. Keelan pivoted to me. "Consort, please tell us what this is." "I have no idea.
~ Ilona Andrews
Calling people out" was her preferred method of dealing with issues.
~ Ilona Andrews
I feel like we've had a real breakthrough here, Landon," Hugh said. "This is the most honest conversation we've ever had.
~ Ilona Andrews
It is of great consequence to have previously determined the concept that one wants to elucidate through observation before questioning experience about it; for one finds in experience what one needs only if one knows in advance what to look for.
~ Immanuel Kant
Quem não sabe o que procura, quando acha não encontra.
~ Immanuel Kant
whose true object is to shed the clearest light on every step which reason takes.
~ Immanuel Kant
Pensamentos sem conteúdos são vazios, intuições sem conceitos são cegas.
~ Immanuel Kant
De repente echa a correr por su vida De repente tiene una palabra que es suficiente De repente da todo por sentado De repente sabe exactamente lo que quiere La verdad es un proceso que se quiere ocultar pero nadie puede ocultar un fragmentado proceso
~ Inger Christensen
That was before I had my coffee. I'm not responsible for any information delivered pre-caffeine.
~ Irene Hannon
I am looking out of my window in an anxious and resentful state of mind, oblivious to my surroundings, brooding perhaps on some damage done to my prestige. Then suddenly I observe a hovering kestrel. In a moment everything is altered. The brooding self with its hurt vanity has disappeared. There is nothing now but kestrel. And when I return to thinking of the other matter it seems less important
~ Iris Murdoch
I need daylight. But I wander in the dark.
~ Iris Murdoch
Tyrants always fear art because tyrants want to mystify while art tends to clarify. The good artist is a vehicle of truth Great art is able to display and discuss the central area of our reality, our actual consciousness, in a more exact way than science or even philosophy can.
~ Iris Murdoch
In a world without a redeemer only clarity was the answer to guilt. He would make it all clear to himself, shirking nothing, and then he would decide.
~ Iris Murdoch
I can see this so clearly because I have long ago given up my own hopes of being happy.
~ Iris Murdoch
It's much better that I should read the letter. Otherwise I shall be endlessly wondering what was in it.
~ Iris Murdoch
When one is very close to Truth itself, truthfulness vanishes.
~ Iris Murdoch
Understanding was out of the question; and indeed how passionately, just then, I did not want to be understood.
~ Iris Murdoch