Vagueness Quotes - Page 2

• Perhaps I became so vague, so exhilarated with vagueness, precisely in order to forestall a recognition of the final term of the syllogism that begins: If one man loves another he is a homosexual; I love a man.

  Edmund White

  Men, Order, Finals

  Edmund White (2016). “A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic”, p.84, Pan Macmillan

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• You start meditation as an average human being who is filled with vagueness and not much purpose or definition, who is controlled by their desires, your mind spins all over the place, your senses spin all over the place, out of control.

  Federico Lenz

  Buddhism, Average, Meditation

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• A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Mad, Imagine, Bits

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). "Engleby: A Novel", Doubleday Books

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• Al abandonar la vaguedad del boceto, el artista muestra más de su personalidad al revelar el alcance pero también las limitaciones de su talento.

  Eugenio Delacroix

  Artist, Personality, Talent

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• Es en las primeras horas de la mañana cuando se ve lo que no se ve, y cuando la belleza y la gloria lejanas, venciendo toda su vaguedad, descienden sobre nosotros hasta permanecer claras como el cristal cerca del alma.

  Sarah Smiley

  Morning, Moving, Soul

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• Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Fog, Gossip, Cynical

  Sinclair Lewis (1995). “Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott”, p.387, Penguin

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• Kantians are saddled with absolutist views, Aristotelians are accused of vagueness, and there is almost no horror to which Consequentialists are innocent of, according to some critics. While all these families of views have been victimized in these ways, Consequentialists have gotten the worst of it. I think this may have something to do with the fact that Kant and Aristotle are acknowledged to be great philosophers, and we tend to read the greats sympathetically, while Consequentialism is a family of views not rooted in the work of a single great man to whom this kind of deference is owed.

  Dale Jamieson

  Men, Thinking, Views

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Taken, Alarms, Impossible

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.476, Delphi Classics

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• When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal.

  Steven Pinker

  Mean, Simple, Long

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• El cortejo consiste en una serie de atenciones tranquilas, no tan puntiagudas como para alarmar, ni tan vagas como para no ser comprendidas.

  Laurence Sterne

  Marriage, Numbers, Alarms

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• When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.

  John Updike

  Easter, New York, Writing

  John Updike (2013). “Picked-Up Pieces: Essays”, p.472, Random House

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• What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Science, Opposites

  "Sceptical Essays". Book by Bertrand Russell, Ch. 12: Free Thought and Official Propaganda, 1928.

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• La piadosa pretensión de que el mal no existe sólo lo hace vago, enorme y amenazador.

  Aleister Crowley

  Evil, Doe, Enormous

  "Las confesiones de Aleister Crowley". Libro de Aleister Crowley. Capítulo 33, 1969.

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• Supongamos que el espejo se rompe, la imagen desaparece y la figura romántica con el verde de las profundidades del bosque a su alrededor ya no está allí, sino sólo esa cáscara de una persona que es vista por otras personas - ¡en qué mundo sin aire, superficial, calvo y prominente se convierte! Un mundo en el que no se puede vivir. Cuando nos miramos en los omnibuses y en el metro, nos miramos en el espejo que explica la vaguedad, el brillo vidrioso de nuestros ojos.

  Virginia Woolf

  Eye, Glasses, Mirrors

  Virginia Woolf (2017). “A arte da brevidade: Contos”, p.7, Autêntica

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• We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than cruelty, more than violence, more than hatred. We allow ourselves to be foiled by the vagueness of the word. After all, love requires the utmost vulnerability. We equip someone with freshly sharpened knives; strip naked; then invite him to stand close. What could be scarier?

  Diane Ackerman

  Heart, Thinking, Knives

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.20, Vintage

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• Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy. Man needs a rule for his will, and will invent one if one be not given him.

  William James

  Life, Determination, Successful

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.58, 谷月社

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• Bueno - El patriotismo tiene sus leyes. Y también es una ley perfectamente definida, no hay vaguedades en ella. Ordena que el hermano al otro lado de la frontera sea vigilado y castigado cada vez que nos haga daño o nos ofenda con un insulto.

  Mark Twain

  Hurt, Brother, Book

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• I can't write from the subconscious actually, because a lot of the time when I co-write with other people, I'm writing for them as opposed to for myself. When it comes to lyrics, I tend to want to give them their voice, since it's most likely going to be on their record, or somebody else's record. And I find for more commerial-style music, people want simplicity, less vagueness, and less space to fill between the lines, so to speak. So I can't be quite as ethereal and mystical.

  Gary Louris

  Writing, Voice, Space

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• An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I have always been fascinated by blood. Pain can be vitalizing; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?

  Sebastian Horsley

  Pain, Artist, Blood

  "Horsley's cross is a painful one to bare" by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• En la buena escritura no se permite ningún borrón de inexactitud, ninguna nube de vaguedad; desde la primera visión hasta la última anotación, debe haber una lucidez constante y un propósito sin concesiones.

  Eudora Welty

  Writing, Clouds, Purpose

  Eudora Welty (2011). "On Writing", p.50, Modern Library.

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• Rara vez pienso en mis limitaciones, y nunca me entristecen. Tal vez haya a veces una pizca de añoranza, pero es vaga, como una brisa entre las flores.

  Helen Keller

  Triste, Flor, Ex Novio

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• En nuestro tiempo, el discurso y la escritura políticos son en gran medida la defensa de lo indefendible... Por lo tanto, el lenguaje político tiene que consistir en gran medida en eufemismos, preguntas y vaguedades... El lenguaje político [está] diseñado para que las mentiras suenen verdaderas y el asesinato respetable.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Writing, Political Language

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• Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral law.

  Augustus William Hare

  Freedom, Names, Law

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.38

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• La misión de la ley no es oprimir a las personas y despojarlas de sus bienes, aunque la ley actúe con espíritu filantrópico. Su finalidad es proteger a las personas y los bienes.... Si se sobrepasa este límite, si se pretende que la ley sea religiosa, fraternal, igualadora, filantrópica, industrial o artística, se estará perdido en un territorio desconocido, en la vaguedad y la incertidumbre, en una utopía forzada o, peor aún, en una multitud de utopías, cada una de las cuales se esforzará por apoderarse de la ley e imponérsela.

  Federico Bastiat

  Religión, Derecho, Interpretación

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• Las políticas que defiende Hillary [Clinton] van a ser más de lo mismo, tanto si nos fijamos en sus acogedoras relaciones con los bancos, su negativa a apoyar la Glass-Steagall, su vaguedad sobre lo que realmente va a hacer con respecto al control de los grandes bancos.

  Jill Stein

  Glasses, Support, Cozy

  Fuente: www.glamour.com

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