Rene Magritte Quotes

If your own mind is muddled, much more will the minds of your hearers be confused.

A man of clear ideas errs grievously if he imagines that whatever is seen confusedly does not exist; it belongs to him, when he meets with such a thing, to dispel the midst, and fix the outlines of the vague form which is looming through it.

Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear, therefore clear explanations are not clear.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

There is nothing clever about confusion.

The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.

Sensations are nothing but confused modes of thinking.

There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas.

Instead of always asking yourself how to clear up your mental fog, learn to ask: "Can confusion know anything about clarity?"

I'm real clear, you know? There's no fogginess.

He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.

It is not confused. We are.

I am clearer in my mind and a bit less confused than I used to be.

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

Clarity affords focus.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.

I only see clearly what I remember.

To identify the enemy is to free the mind.