Lucidity Quotes

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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 combined with his… — Emma Goldman
A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction… — Charles Horton Cooley
Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity. — Albert Camus
He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a… — Aneurin Bevan
No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be… — Eudora Welty
I'm actually a great fan of lucidity. — Henry Flynt
As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty. — Will Self
I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also… — Michael Eric Dyson
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that JosÃ© Arcadio BuendÃa was not… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and… — Yann Martel
Perhaps things are most beautiful when they are not quite real; when you look upon a scene as an outsider, and come to possess it… — Mark Helprin
The secret, or innermost, level of wisdom is pure intuition, clarity, lucidity, innate wakefulness, presence, and recognition of reality. This transcendental wisdom is within all… — Surya Das
The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion...one would welcome chaos… — Emile M. Cioran
Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where… — Albert Camus
The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal. Without such a goal, chastity… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I am more sensitive than other people. Things that other people would not notice awaken a distinct echo in me, and in such moments of… — Henri Barbusse
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the… — Arthur Schopenhauer
â€¦ he remained restrained and strangely composed. It was a composure born of extreme provocation. It stemmed from a lucidity that lies beyond rage. — Arundhati Roy

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