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I can see clouds a thousand miles away, hear ancient music in the pines.

(On the seeming futility of metaphysics) Why then has nature afflicted our reason with the restless ...

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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait '...

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the only source whence any thing like consolation or composure could be drawn, was in the resolution...

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Political courage requires clarity.

Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry t...

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Thus it is said:The path into the light seems dark,the path forward seems to go back,the direct path...

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Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we ...

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Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaqu...

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Ludwig WittgensteinTractatus Logico-Philosophicus

...for each of us sees clarity only in those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his ow...

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Marcel ProustIn the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

How good it is, when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that ...

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Alas, is even Love too weak to unlock the heart and let it speak? Are even lovers powerless to revea...

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At sunrise, everything is luminous but not clear

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Norman MacleanA River Runs Through It

Concerning the gods I cannot know either that they exist or that they do not exist, or what form the...

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It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most...

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It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

Julien felt himself to be strong and resolute like a man who sees clearly into his own heart.

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StendhalThe Red and the Black

There are few moments of clarity more profound than those that follow the emptying of an overcharged...

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We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. T...

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There are books that speak to us of our own lives with a clarity we cannot match. They prevent the m...

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The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-call...

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In higher samadhi, in absence of any support, the consciousness is absorbed within itself in perfect...

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Amit RayOM Sutra: The Pathway to Enlightenment

My objective is to create my own world and these images which we create mean nothing more than the i...

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To be a prophet, Knox emphasizes, requires living in and looking at the present, at what is really g...

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We were at that moment of drunkenness that the two of us had come to call the Golden Moment, when ev...

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Minister: As I was saying, Alex, you can be instrumental in changing the public verdict. Do you unde...

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One should use common words to say uncommon things

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fa...

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Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God. The atheist does not say that there is no God, bu...

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Charles BradlaughThe Freethinker's Text-Book: Man: Whence and How? Religion: What and Why?

there's no clarity.there was never meant to be clarity.

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction an...

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Sometimes enlightenment descends upon you when you least expect it...

Then the clarifying thing happens, and what you need to do, what you must do, is not a question, not...

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I don't know" is not confusion. Confusion is "I don't know, but I should know" or "I don't know, but...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

To make the distinction unmistakably clear: Civilization is the vital force in human history; cultur...

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Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superfi...

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Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to t...

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The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness a...

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a story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the ...

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You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost po...

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When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

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

Colors shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a ...

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