“No matter how hard we try to ignore it, the mind always knows truth and wants clarity.”
Toni Morrison book God Help the Child
Source: God Help the Child
“Truth and clarity are complementary.”
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.
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there was never meant to be clarity.”
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4th Public Talk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (19 May 1968)
1960s
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Steve Maraboli (1975)
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Jonathan Stroud book The Ring of Solomon
Source: The Ring of Solomon
James K. Morrow (1947) (1947-) science fiction author
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Marcus Buckingham (1966) British writer
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Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
“Clarity is not a characteristic of the human spirit.”
Robertson Davies book The Cunning Man
Part 1, section 4.
The Cunning Man (1994)