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  • Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

    Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.36, Vintage
  • Lucid dreaming lets you make use of the dream state that comes to you every night to have a stimulating reality.

    Dream   Night   Reality  
    "Turning vivid dreams into reality" by Donna Tapellini, www.wired.com. March 19, 2001.
  • Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that José Arcadio Buendía was not as crazy as the family said, but that he was the only one who had enough lucidity to sense the truth of the fact that time also stumbled and had accidents and could therefore splinter and leave an eternalized fragment in a room.

  • 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 of us—it just needs to be discovered and developed, unfolded and actualized.

  • In what touches their social convictions, most persons do not think. The threat of change, with all it suggests to them in the loss of social and economic privilege, alarms so deeply that they are incapable of unprejudiced thought. They seem to themselves to be thinking, with lucidity and fairness, but since they start from the conviction that change must undoubtedly be for the worse or from settled grief at the thought of losing what is old and lovely, they are doing no more than following a logical sequence of ideas from a false premise.

    Grief   Loss   Thinking  
  • 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 warm-heartednes s into the harmonious whole of a fascinating and gracious personality.

  • 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 in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies.

    Book   Reading   Past  
    Charles Horton Cooley (2017). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.308, Routledge
  • In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will make up the greatest of his strengths. The required diligence and doggedness and lucidity thus resemble the conqueror's attitude. To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate. For all these characters, their work defines them at least as much as it is defined by them. The actor taught us this: There is no frontier between being and appearing.

    "The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.
  • 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 it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.

    Heart   Men   Thinking  
    Albert Camus (1955). “The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays”
  • Lucidity, I maintain, is almost always desirable.

    Yi-Fu Tuan (2000). “Escapism”, p.23, JHU Press
  • Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.

    Georges Bataille (1983). “L'abbé C: A Novel”, Marion Boyars Publishers
  • Lucid dreaming has considerable potential for promoting personal growth and self-development, enhancing self-confidence, improving mental and physical health, facilitating creative problem solving and helping you to progress on the path to self-mastery.

  • In language that is searing and lyrical, evocative and precise, this exceptional book thinks with the zombies, specters, felons, slaves, dogs, cadavers, and other entities that are the remnants of loss and dispossession in the law. Dogs and people are abundantly present here, even as the legal fictions they are made to inhabit are exposed with acid lucidity. These are hard histories made readable by Dayan's precious acts of writing.

    Dog   Book   Writing  
  • A poem is an instant of lucidity in which the entire organism participates.

    Charles Simic (1985). “The Uncertain Certainty: Interviews, Essays, and Notes on Poetry”
  • 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 is bound to become ridiculous. Chastity is the sine qua non of lucidity and concentration.

    Essence   Goal   Lust  
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1967). “Letters and Papers from Prison”
  • The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist's feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian's scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled.

    Strong   War   Character  
  • In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.

    Memories   Years   Finals  
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Love in the Time of Cholera”, p.90, Penguin UK
  • Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.

    Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.26, Arcade Publishing
  • 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.

  • I'm actually a great fan of lucidity.

  • Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints.

    Writing   Mean   Gold  
    "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.
  • 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 fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.

    Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.87, Penguin UK
  • 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, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that he was unable to bear in his soul the crushing weight of so much past.

    Crush   Children   Past  
    "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel García Márquez, 1967.
  • Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth.

    Coffee   Reality   Clouds  
  • 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 steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose.

    Eudora Welty (2011). “On Writing”, p.50, Modern Library
  • Moskin has brought together with care and lucidity an inside history of American diplomacy written through the eyes of the many diplomats who conceived and carried it out over 225 years. You experience the challenges, successes, and foibles. Over time, the Foreign Service evolved into a professional cadre serving the public and presidents, often at the peril of their lives. Anyone interested in understanding our diplomacy, what makes it tick, and how it strives to serve the public interest should read this masterful history.

  • If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.

    Water   Mind   Faculty  
    Zhuangzi, Herbert Allen Giles (1909). “Teachings and Sayings of Chuang Tzu”, p.53, Courier Corporation
  • Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of art. The necessary elements of style are lucidity, elegance, and individuality; these three qualities combine to form a preservative which ensures the nearest approximation to permanence in the fugitive art of letters.

    Art   Essence   Seductive  
  • Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.

    Confused   Speech   Tests  
  • Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.

    T. S. Eliot (2011). “The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 1: 1898-1922”, p.240, Faber & Faber
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