Quotes About Obscure

Noise guides only as light blinds.

I still think the revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small.

I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.

A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read.

Politics is not what it pretends to be, the expression of a collective will. Politics breathes well only where this will is multiple, hesitant, confused, and obscure even to itself.

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

What is said of some commentators, 'The places on which they treat were plain till they expounded them,' may be said of some preachers, their text was clear till their obscure dis course upon it darkened it.

Very little in nature is detectable by unaided human senses.

The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide To Obscure and Discredited Diseases.

Tao's working of things is vague and obscure. Obscure! Oh vague! In it are images. Vague! Oh obscure! In it are things. Profound! Oh dark indeed! In it a seed. Its seed is [the] very truth. In it is trustworthiness. From the earliest Beginning until today Its name is not lacking By which to fathom the Beginning of all things. How do I know it is the Beginning of all things? Through it! —Lao Tzu2

Opposing one species of superstition to another, set them a-quarreling; while we ourselves, during their fury and contention, happily make our escape into the calm, though obscure, regions of philosophy.

That's my feeling - that real God and religion are two different things and that religion is trying to obscure what God really is.

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

For an inheritance to be really great, the hand of the defunct must not be seen.

When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?

The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.

Simplicity may be simple, but like complexity it requires linguistic precision, and may therefore call for relatively obscure expressions at times.

Independence was as far as his mind could reach. Yet I think his mind groped further, towards what he could not see, the body's obscure, inalterable dream of mutuality.

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.

She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.

The body itself is pure. It is very good, but often a person's intentions are not. Therefore, the problem with immodesty is not that it reveals too much, but that it obscures the value of the person. Modesty, then, is not about hiding one's body but about revealing one's worth. It is an invitation to contemplation. It conceals certain parts of the body not because they are bad, but in order to invite others to discover one's full value as a person, thus opening a way toward love.

Mi cabeza está llena de nombres cuyos rostros he olvidado o son sólo una mancha flotando en un paisaje