Quotes About Lucidity

Nevertheless, the large number of experiences of this type reported by carers suggest that it is an area that deserves far more attention. If it can be shown that patients with significant degradation of their brain tissue (for example, in advanced cases of Alzheimer's Disease) become lucid, with memories intact, in their final days, what implications does this have for the relationship between mind and brain?

Sometimes it's easier for me to do films about, and with, women, because I have more distance, I'm more lucid.

My statements and actions are pretty clear.

Clarity affords focus.

Lucid dreaming lets you make use of the dream state that comes to you every night to have a stimulating reality.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid. —HEINRICH HEINE,

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid. —HEINRICH HEINE, German critic and poet

I was as limpid as dammit.

Il était soûl. Donc lucide. Soûl on voit très clair en soi.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

Così, dall'ansia di perdere certe gioie appena gustate, dall'innata avarizia, dall'oscuro disprezzo per i propri simili, prontamente cogliendo l'occasione che la sorte gli offriva, con grave ma lucido azzardo, Giuseppe Vella si fece protagonista della grande impostura.

Un muro espeso comenzó a alzarse entre Alice Gould y su capacidad de razonar. "No puedo fijar mis ideas", se dijo. (...) Un oscuro sentimiento le impedía cruelmente alcanzar la meta de su razonamiento. Lanzaba con lucidez y fuerza su argumento hacia el frente y éste regresaba a ella como la pelota rebotada en un frontón.

Estaba viendo claramente el vacío. Y ni entendía aquello que una parte de ella entendía. ¿Qué haría de esa lucidez? Sabía también que aquella claridad suya se podía volver el infierno humano.

Some people are exceptionally clear eyed. To them, nothing is ever too complex or mysterious. Answers invisible to most are in plain sight to these enlightened few. Their approach to the world is elementary and, without fail, right. They see through false complications and find the simple truths of life. Mildred was blessed with this lucidity.

A man wakes up and for a few moments he experiences everything exactly as it is. Jon wrote: A man wakes up and is lucid. It doesn't last long, though, he thought, that kind of lucidity. If it did you wouldn't be able to stand it, it would kill you. Let

As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.

Icon Books has a fine series called "Revolutions in Science." These works are succinct, highly readable, and authoritative. The series includes John Henry's Moving Heaven and Earth: Copernicus and the Solar System (Duxford, Cambridge: Icon Books, 2001). Henry's book can be read in an afternoon, and, while not as detailed as Kuhn's classic, it tells the story with verve and lucidity.

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

I live neither in the past nor in the future. I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

Je n'aime personne et je ne fous rien, je ne veux pas tenter de me distraire, ou de m'occulter la vérité. La vie est une saloperie, et chaque seconde de lucidité est un supplice.

Clarity depends on contrast. In

He treasured his last visit with her, when, in a moment of lucidity, she'd recognized her only son, reminding him of Gideon's mission in Judges. "You've always been one of the few, James. Keep watching the horizon.

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.

Son raras las veces que pienso en Dios. Sin embargo, tengo un fondo religioso, un ansia de religión. Quisiera convencerme de que efectivamente poseo una definición de Dios, un concepto de Dios. Pero no poseo nada semejante. Son raras las veces en que pienso en Dios, sencillamente porque el problema me excede tan sobrada y soberanamente, que llega a provocarme una especie de pánico, una desbandada general de mi lucidez y de mis razones.