Quotes About Obscure

Action is only coarsened thought-thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistance -- that is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph.

Action is but coarsened thought; thought become concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Tertullian argued that the Bible is often difficult to interpret. Obscure passages must be interpreted by those which are plain.

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.

You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.

Some scholars have argued that the Persian period was one of the most productive for Hebrew literature. During these two centuries, earlier Israelite literature and traditions were edited and others were written, or so many scholars think; if they are right, this was one of the most prolific times of Jewish literary activity. The difficulty is that this is a very obscure period in the history of the Jews.

The library was still giving trouble: a few books in some of the more obscure corners of the stacks retained some autonomy, dating back to an infamous early experiment with flying books, and lately they'd begun to breed. Shocked undergraduates had stumbled on books in the very act.

The mathematician who is without value to mathematicians, the thinker who is obscure or meaningless to thinkers, the dramatist who fails to move the pit, may be wise, may be eminent, but as an author he has failed.

I had an album out at exactly the same time as 'Love to Love You' called 'Einzelganger,' and it's great, all electronic. I'm using a vocoder, doing all this cut-up stuff on there, but no one knows about it.

I'm congenitally vague.

She had drawn circles around her eyes, which were joined by a line across the bridge of her nose. It was a traditional mark of her calling, but no one knew why.

The law is so complex and voluminous that no one, not even the most knowledgeable lawyer, can understand it all. Moreover, lawyers and legal scholars have not gone out of their way to make the law accessible to the ordinary person. Just the opposite: Legal professionals, like the priests of some obscure religion, too often try to keep the law mysterious and inaccessible.

I felt that the success of the enterprise was in my hands: the moment had an obscure meaning which had to be trimmed and perfected; certain motions had to be made, certain words spoken: I staggered under the weight of my responsibility.

I strive to be brief but I become obscure.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

I am interested in the Oscar Wilde we don't know.

What a fine persecution—to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

Excuse me, but can you be a little more vague?

part of the shadows.

frame is a mystery.

who is invisible enough to see you

The advantage of a medium of exchange is that it makes trade work. The disadvantage is that it tends to obscure what trade really means.