Clearness Quote by Luc de Clapiers Download Open image “Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.” — Luc de Clapiers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clearness Mark Philosopher Philosophy Sincerity Truth
I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it more truly… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear. — Avital Ronell Copy Share Image
The duty of a philosopher is clear. He must take every pain to ascertain the truth; and, having arrived at a conclusion, he should… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
“The true meaning of our philosophy will be unintelligible to the arrogant, the boastful and the mocking. Beware of those who exhibit such traits.” — Joanne Owen Copy Share Image
The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt. — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
It is natural to every man to wish for distinction, and the praise of those who can confer honor by their praise, in spite… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
While sincerity is to carry the weight of knowledge in the self, it is also to be the lightness of being clean. — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we are in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities sometimes concern… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become… — Jim Harrison 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 from prejudice… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
