Lucidity Quotes

44 quotes by 37 authors

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our… — Albert Camus
In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a… — Karl Popper
Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession… — Conrad Black
America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident. — Sidney Lumet
He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. — Aneurin Bevan
Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the… — Georges Bataille
You who look at everything through your perpetually open eyes, is your lucidity never bathed in tears? — Michel Serres
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… — Igor Stravinsky
Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker. — David Lloyd George
A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his work, and his… — Blake Bailey
Moskin has brought together with care and lucidity an inside history of American diplomacy written through the eyes of the many diplomats who conceived and… — Thomas R. Pickering
Depressive lucidity, usually described as a radical withdrawal from ordinary human concerns, generally manifests itself by a profound indifference to things which are genuinely of… — Michel Houellebecq
In language that is searing and lyrical, evocative and precise, this exceptional book thinks with the zombies, specters, felons, slaves, dogs, cadavers, and other entities… — Donna J. Haraway
Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the… — Jules Michelet
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror… — Zhuangzi
The cuisine, it is all about putting generosity before rigour and pleasure before lucidity. — Pierre Gagnaire
The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy. — Eva Hoffman
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind. — Zhuangzi

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