Opaque Quotes

53 Opaque quotes by 51 unique authors

Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect… — Edward Abbey
No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is opaque… — Fulton J. Sheen
As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism — a sort of religious denial of God. It… — Thomas Paine
Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the others. — Isaiah Berlin
It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden… — C.S. Lewis
French is not a language that lends itself naturally to the opaque and ponderous idiom of nature-philosophy, and Teilhard has according resorted to the use… — Peter Medawar
Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture. — Virginia Postrel
More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable. — Michel de Certeau
Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up… — Albert Schweitzer
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. — Jim Bishop
Post-wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several… — Leslie Jamison
Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either. — Jamie Dimon
As society becomes more complex and opaque, as social processes seem more impersonal and autonomous, and as elites of 'experts' become more annoying, more people… — George Will
Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship. — Eckhart Tolle
There was wildlife, untouched, a jungle at the border of the sea, never seen by those who floated on the opaque roof. Describing his early… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the… — Michel de Montaigne
I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours. — Sally Phillips
The task of the intellectual is not one of blending into the opaque consciousness of the tumultuous mob around him, his voice drowned in a… — Sanusi Lamido Sanusi
Self is the opaque veil that hides the face of God from us. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance. — Ivan Illich
Creation was given to people as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into people's souls. Sun and moon, night and… — Thomas Merton
In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the… — Breyten Breytenbach
My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my… — F. H. Bradley
Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was… — Mark Twain

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