“There is lucidity inspired by the nearness of the grave:to be close to death is to see clearly” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy. — Eva Hoffman Copy Share Image
“It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human and recoignizable.” — Clarice Lispector 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
“But due to some strange lack of neural coordination between the faculties of thinking and speaking, or perhaps to the crucial lifeline… — María Dueñas Copy Share Image
The beginning of art is not reason. It is the buried treasure of the unconscious...that unconscious which has more understanding than our… — Edgard Varese 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
“Having seen how lucidly and logically certain madmen justify their lunatic ideas to themselves and to others, I can never again be… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and… — Karl Popper 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
We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually… — Conrad Black 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 what touches their social convictions, most persons do not think. The threat of change, with all it suggests to them in… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his… — Blake Bailey 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
“To write about him is to write about Greatness. To discuss him is to discuss Intellectual Brilliance. To think of him is… — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“... never engage to play with a troubled mind or excited emotions. Lucidity of mind is crucial and once once's emotions become… — Emery Lee 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
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
Peter Kropotkin...was recognized by friend and foe as one of the greatest minds...of the nineteenth century...The lucidity and brilliance of his mind… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Fall asleep. Yes, you fall asleep. You are awake and then you close your eyes and thoughts press in and lucidity invades… — Maggie Stiefvater 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
“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
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
I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, whirling in… — Olaf Stapledon 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
