Quotes About Lucidity

The purpose of the present study is to bring, so far as we are able, some "order and lucidity" into the presently uncoordinated field of anxiety theory.

C'est cela l'exil, l'étranger, cette inexorable observation de l'existence telle qu'elle est vraiment pendant ces quelques heures, lucides, exceptionnelles dans la trame du temps humain, où les habitudes du pays précédent vous abandonnent, sans que les autres, les nouvelles, vous aient encore suffisamment abruti.

Nessun cupo dolore l'aveva colta più violentemente di questa chiarezza, che ella cercava di rendere ancora più lucida, come si è soliti fare tormentandosi da sé, una volta che abbiamo iniziato ad essere tormentati.

I didn't hear what he said, but I felt like laughing at his artificial imperiousness. The laugh took away every desire to attack, drained me... React. I began to tidy up. When I had finished I began again, a kind of roundup of everything that didn't appear to be in order. Lucidity, determination, hold on to life.

they had an ability to classify, a logical lucidity, that Professor Galiani didn't possess.

How Rhythm Beautifies.- Rhythm casts a veil over reality; it causes various artificiality's of speech and obscurities of thought; by the shadow it throws upon thought it sometimes conceals it, and sometimes brings it into prominence. As shadow is necessary to beauty, so the "dull" is necessary to lucidity. Art makes the aspect of life endurable by throwing over it the veil of obscure thought.

The Declaration of Independence is so lucid were afraid of it today. It scares the hell out of every modern bureaucrat, because it tells them there comes a time when we must stop taking orders.

Pues, desde siempre, ser lúcido y español aparejó gran amargura y poca esperanza.

Desde siempre, ser lúcido y español aparejó gran amargura y poca esperanza.» El capitán Alatriste

Una de aquellas sonrisas hechas de esa lucidez y esa mirada penetrante que en las mujeres constituye exclusivo patrimonio; fruto de siglos y siglos de ver, en silencio, a los hombres cometiendo toda suerte de estupideces

Sarebbe stato più sopportabile, indubbiamente, se invece dell'amara lucidità che impregnava ogni sua azione e pensiero, il capitano Alatriste avesse goduto dei doni magnifici della stupidità, del fanatismo o della cattiveria. Perché solo gli stupidi, i fanatici e le canaglie vivono senza fantasmi, o senza rimorsi.

Oprah Winfrey told of calling Toni Morrison to say she had had to puzzle repeatedly over many of the latter's sentences. According to Oprah, Morrison's reply was "That, my dear, is called reading." Sorry, my dear Toni, but it's actually called bad writing. Great prose isn't always easy but it's always lucid; no one of Oprah's intelligence ever had to puzzle over what Joseph Conrad was trying to say in a particular sentence.

Great prose isn't always easy but it's always lucid.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

Not, is it simple, but, is it clear.

Por más que uno fuera precavido y planeara sus acciones con la mayor lucidez, la vida, más compleja que todos los cálculos, hacía estallar los esquemas y los reemplazaba por situaciones inciertas y contradictorias.

We should not allow patriotism to do violence to our lucidity, our reason, our intelligence.

Make no mistake: patriotism is a religion, the enemy of lucidity. It is pure obscurantism, an act of faith.

Son cosas irreconciliables, Alice. No se engañe: el patriotismo es una religión, está reñido con la lucidez. Es puro oscurantismo, un acto de fe».

Perhaps things are most beautiful when they are not quite real; when you look upon a scene as an outsider, and come to possess it in its entirety and forever; when you live in the present with the lucidity and feeling of memory; when, for want of connection, the world deepens and becomes art.

The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious. Sisyphus, proletarian of the gods, powerless and rebellious, knows the whole extent of his wretched condition: it is what he thinks of during his descent. The lucidity that was to constitute his torture at the same time crowns his victory. There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Ya había sentido eso antes, como esta noche, que su ser se disolvía en provecho de seres inaccesibles, pero nunca había visto con una lucidez tan perfecta su propio aniquilamiento.

For some seconds he expressed himself with violence and fluency, describing the nature, habits, temperament, and antecedents (probable) of John Marco with a comprehensiveness, lucidity, and imagery that shocked Judge Macklin and caused Ellery's eyes to widen with admiration. "Oh, lovely," said Ellery warmly when Moley perforce paused for breath. "An exquisite object-lesson in invective.

All knowledge pushed to its limit can be dangerous, and morbid, because life is endurable solely because we don't see it through to the end. An undertaking is only possible if we have conserved a minimum of illusions. Complete lucidity is the void!