Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

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.

Nothing is confused except the mind.

It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.

I only see clearly what I remember.

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

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

The mind has to be empty to see clearly.

One must confront vague ideas with clear images.

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.

When the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. When the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. When the mind is unobstructed the result is truth. When the heart is unobstructed, the result is joy and love.

There is nothing clever about confusion.

Let's have days and days of brilliant clarity, etched and limpid, cool and surgical.

I'm not a confused person in real life. I'm very clear.

We have an inner window through which we can see the world, and though it gets cloudy in life, it's our job to wipe it clean and see things as they really are.

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

First feel sure of idea, then the execution will be easier.

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

I think I have a very clear vision of what I want things to look like.

Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out

Vipassana: looking into something with clarity and precision, seeing each component as distinct, piercing all the way through so as to perceive the most fundamental reality of that thing.

Clarity precedes success.

Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

Hammer your thoughts into unity.