
“No matter how hard we try to ignore it, the mind always knows truth and wants clarity.”
Source: God Help the Child
As quoted in Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism : Philosophical Responses to Quantum Mechanics (2000) by Christopher Norris, p. 234
Variant: Opposites are complementary.
Contraria Sunt Complementa
“No matter how hard we try to ignore it, the mind always knows truth and wants clarity.”
Source: God Help the Child
“there's no clarity.
there was never meant to be clarity.”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
4th Public Talk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (19 May 1968)
1960s
“Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not.”
Source: Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Source: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 13 (p. 153)