Quotes about Clarity

If you are once sure what you do want, you find that everything else goes down before it like grass under a roller—all other interests, your own and other people's.

Mademoiselle, I tell you frankly that to have a healthy mind in a healthy body is the greatest gift of le bon Dieu, and when I see so many people who have clean blood and strong bodies spoiling themselves and distorting their brains with drugs and drink and foolishness, it makes me angry. They should leave that to the people who cannot help themselves because to them life is without hope.

When you look at the Moon, you think, "I'm really small. What are my problems?" It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.

Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

What you see is what it is!

Truth by definition excludes.

Agape is related to Eros, as Mozart to Beethoven. How could they possibly be confused?

Agape is related to Eros, as Mozart to Beethoven. How could they possibly be confused? Agape

When theology recognizes one thing properly, it mis-recognizes something else all the more thoroughly.

Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober.

Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience