Showing posts with label lucidity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lucidity. Show all posts

February 18, 2011

#2,806

Our spontaneous aversions are often more lucid than our reasoned convictions.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 450

November 15, 2010

#2,236

Man’s moment of greatest lucidity is when he doubts his doubt.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 363

November 3, 2010

#2,167

The lucidity of certain moments is accompanied at times by the sensation of keeping watch alone in a sleeping city.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 353

September 30, 2010

#1,961

When a society’s intelligence becomes plebeian, literary criticism appears more lucid, albeit cruder.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 320

September 11, 2010

#1,844

Lucidity is the booty of the defeated.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 303

August 29, 2010

#1,771

To one who anxiously asks what is to be done today, let us honestly answer that today all that is possible is an impotent lucidity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 293

June 14, 2010

#1,272

Until man rouses himself from his current orgy of pride, it is not worth the trouble attempting anything.
Only looks not thrown out of focus by pride attain that lucid vision of the world which confirms what we preach.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 220

April 7, 2010

#864

Lucidity, in the 20th century, has as its requisite abandonment to hope.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 158

February 22, 2010

#497

To live with lucidity a simple, quiet, discreet life among intelligent books, loving a few persons.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 96

January 18, 2010

#83

Our maturity must re-conquer its lucidity daily.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 36