It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“For instance? Well, for instance, what it means to be a man. In a city. In a century. In transition. In a… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase: the greater the degree… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicle of planets. Nothing in them in not particular, and planet is dissimilar… — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
There is no defense against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Artists are the best theologians. They feel things that are true before theologians can jargonize them into obscurity. — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor. — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else. — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The public, too, has to make an effort in order to understand the writer who, though he renounce complacent obscurity, cannot always… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Concerning the gods I cannot know either that they exist or that they do not exist, or what form they might have,… — Protagoras Copy Share Image
I think I would like the sort of job where you can work away in obscurity to try and improve things, without… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward… — Nelson Goodman Copy Share Image
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“A method involving apparent obscurity is surely justified when it is the clearest, the simplest, the only method possible of saying in… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity. [Lat., Majorum… — Sallust Copy Share Image
This idea [standardized time zones] was first advanced and fought for by Sandford Fleming of Canada and Charles F. Dowd of the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I am grown old, and have possibly lost a great deal of that fire, which formerly made me love fire in others… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Wir tappen im Labyrinth unsers Lebenswandels und im Dunkel unserer Forschungen umher: helleAugenblicke erleuchten dabei wie Blitze unsernWeg. We grope about in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of… — C. D. Darlington Copy Share Image
If there were a reason for preferring the Christian religion to natural religion, it would be because the former offers us, on… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The realization that The Art of Obscurity is my 25th solo album prompted me to do some deep thinking about where I… — Iain Matthews Copy Share Image
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them:… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It was an elevating, transforming vision: a new, fresh, vigorous, and above all morally regenerate people rising from the obscurity to defend… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
Only yesterday I was full of worldly fancies, although religion had already some share in my thoughts: glory was still my daydream.… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
This was a splendid life. Splendid in its obscurity and humility, splendid in its strength and charity, splendid in its achievements. — Robert Mortimer Copy Share Image
“What kind of ministry is that, just talking to people?" Criticism directed at Francis Schaeffer's plan to open an obscure spot in… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night. Truth is like all beautiful things… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
![“The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity. [Lat., Majorum gloria posteris lumen est, neque bona neque mala in occulto patitur.]” quote by Sallust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/093/sallust-4191_ancestor_the-glory-of-ancestors-sheds-a-light-aro_2771739.jpg)
![“This idea [standardized time zones] was first advanced and fought for by Sandford Fleming of Canada and Charles F. Dowd of the United States. I mention them chiefly because like so many benefactors of mankind they have been rewarded by total obscurity.” quote by Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/eca/isaac-asimov-309_benefactors_this-idea-standardized-time-zones-was-fi_2721182.jpg)
![“That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity, is to be attributed largely to an ill-adapted notation. If, for example, +1, -1, and the square root of -1 had been called direct, inverse and lateral…” quote by Carl Friedrich Gauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/acb/carl-friedrich-gauss-9412_adapted_that-this-subject-of-imaginary-magnitude_3134596.jpg)
