Quotes About Lucidity

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture…

Am avut în toat? viaÅ£a mea o pretenÅ£ie extraordinar?, de a fi omul cel mai lucid pe care l-am cunoscut.

Micsorarea luciditatii este un semn de vitalitate a dragostei.

The man too lucid to worship will also be too lucid to wreck, or will wreck only his … rebellions; for what is the use of rebelling only to discover, afterwards, a universe intact? A paltry monologue.

E drept c? mai mult de atât ce ar putea fi Urâtul? Un iad ce nu st? în putinÈ›a Diavolului s?-l imagineze, dar pe care-l elaboreaz? cu grij? ucigaÈ™a demen?? lucid? a c?rnii.

Nu exist? salvare prin nebunie, fiindc? nu exist? om cu presentimentul nebuniei care s? nu se team? de lucidit??ile eventuale într-o asemenea stare. Ai vrea haosul, dar È›i-e fric? de luminile din el.

Prava samoca je ona u kojoj se osecas apsolutno izolovanim izmedju neba i zemlje, nista ne treba da skrece tvoju paznju od ovih pojava apsolutne izolacije, vec intuicija stravicne lucidnosti treba da otkriva vascelu dramu covekove konacnosti pred beskonacnoscu i prazninom ovog sveta.

If there is so much discomfort and ambiguity in lucidity, it is because lucidity is the result of the poor use to which we have put our sleepless nights.

He who is lucid, understands himself, explains himself, justifies himself, and masters his acts will never execute a memorable action. Psychology is the hero's tomb.

Se non si ha dentro di sé la passione dell'insolubile, non è possibile immaginare gli eccessi di cui è capace la negazione, l'impietosa lucidità della negazione.

After the Spanish publication of the 'Précis,' two Andalusian students asked me if it was possible to live without "fundamentación." I answered that it was true that I had found no solid basis anywhere and that I had nonetheless managed to endure, for with the years one got used to everything, even vertigo. Then, too, one does not constantly keep watch and interrogate oneself, absolute lucidity being incompatible with breathing.

Lucidity is the only vice which makes us free—free in a desert.

Lucidity is the only vice which make us free - free in a desert.

no man concerned with his own equilibrium may exceed a certain degree of lucidity and analysis.

but let us remember that lucidity is a condition peculiar to those who by their incapacity to love are as isolated from others as from themselves.

For all its lucidity, this people readily sacrifices to illusion: it hopes, it always hopes too much

After the Spanish publication of the 'Précis,' two Andalusian students asked me if it was possible to live without 'fundamentación.' I answered that it was true that I had found no solid basis anywhere and that I had nonetheless managed to endure, for with the years one got used to everything, even vertigo. Then, too, one does not constantly keep watch and interrogate oneself, absolute lucidity being incompatible with breathing.

The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion...one would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.

I never want to confuse people or go over their heads.

Above all the genuine philosopher will generally seek lucidity and clarity and will always strive not to be like a turbid, raging, rain-swollen stream, but much more like a Swiss lake, which, in its peacefulness, combines great depth with a great clarity that just reveals its great depth.

The past is remembered with such arresting lucidity because it is not being experienced as past; the illness experiences that are being told are unassimilated fragments that refuse to become past, haunting the present.

He remained restrained and strangely composed. It was a composure born of extreme provocation. It stemmed from a lucidity that lies beyond rage.

The practice of mindfulness aims for a still and lucid engagement with the open field of contingent events in which one's life is embedded. All events are ontologically equivalent: mind is not more "real" than matter, nor matter more "real" than mind.

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.