Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“We live in an incredibly dynamic universe that gives us what we wish for, like a waking dream” — Cynthia Sue Larson Copy Share Image
The cuisine, it is all about putting generosity before rigour and pleasure before lucidity. — Pierre Gagnaire Copy Share Image
Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“There is lucidity inspired by the nearness of the grave:to be close to death is to see clearly” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“All knowledge pushed to its limit can be dangerous, and morbid, because life is endurable solely because we don't see it through… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“No one seems to have thought of the fact that life is absurd, being a brilliant success has no greater value than… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose,… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures… — Henri-Frédéric Amiel Copy Share Image
“To awaken is not to reject the dream. It is to become lucid within it, and know that we are not the… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded… — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Moskin has brought together with care and lucidity an inside history of American diplomacy written through the eyes of the many diplomats… — Thomas R. Pickering Copy Share Image
God is always present, always available. At whatever moment in which one turns to him the prayer is received, is heard, is… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In language that is searing and lyrical, evocative and precise, this exceptional book thinks with the zombies, specters, felons, slaves, dogs, cadavers,… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas,… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I find myself nursing keen regret at probably not being able to live long enough to explain properly to you what I… — Comte de Lautréamont Copy Share Image
A poem is an instant of lucidity in which the entire organism participates. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“Asleep you can experience many hours whilst only a few waking moments have passed. This is why dreams are an ideal platform… — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
“If there is so much discomfort and ambiguity in lucidity, it is because lucidity is the result of the poor use to… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Eutrapelia . "A happy and gracious flexibility," Pericles calls this quality of the Athenians...lucidity of thought, clearness and propriety of language, freedom… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We liked to believe there is an alternate world, a better world, populated entirely by characters created by the yearnings of humanity--governing… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who… — Walter Millis Copy Share Image
“…At eighty-one years of age he had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by a few slender… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
