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Obscure Quotes

The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns Picture Quote #1

Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it Picture Quote #1

There is a culture among academics to be obscure. If you’re too clear, you can’t be saying anything interesting. The issue isn’t word length. The issue is a commitment to speaking in a way an audience can understand Picture Quote #1

I have a diverse audience, which is great, because I like doing things that are a bit more obscure, and I love doing things that are very popular as well. Each has its own bit of joy. So I try to mix it up Picture Quote #1

Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human failings Picture Quote #1

Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having; it tends to obscure desperation about where the next word is coming from Picture Quote #1

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For most people it’s easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged Picture Quote #1

Poetry, in the entire course of its development, has always been trying to capture meanings and problems which are still obscure and dormant. Poetry tries to awaken them with a kiss, wherever they may be: in the air, in things, in human beings Picture Quote #1

True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language, as if strengthened by its own medium, to shine even more fully on the original Picture Quote #1

People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt Picture Quote #1

Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists Picture Quote #1

Law has been called a bottomless pit, not so much because of its depth, as that its windings are so obscure nobody can see the end Picture Quote #1

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Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure Picture Quote #1

There are three kinds of explanation in science: explanations which throw a light upon, or give a hint at a matter; explanations which do not explain anything; and explanations which obscure everything Picture Quote #1

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it Picture Quote #1

A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues Picture Quote #1

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system Picture Quote #1

I’ve always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that’s where I belong, that’s where my work belongs Picture Quote #1

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Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it Picture Quote #1

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood Picture Quote #1

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite Picture Quote #1

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought Picture Quote #1

That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall Picture Quote #1

Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure Picture Quote #1

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When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music Picture Quote #1

My own belief is that in most ages and in most places obscure psychological forces led men to adopt systems involving quite unnecessary cruelty, and that this is still the case among the most civilized races at the present day Picture Quote #1

The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls upon the dreamer Picture Quote #1

Before this trip and all that she’d learned about the three of them, she would have gotten angry or changed the subject. Anything to obscure the pain she felt. Now she knew better. You carried your pain with you in life. There was no outrunning it Picture Quote #1

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage Picture Quote #1

This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed Picture Quote #1

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The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns (Obscure Quotes) Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it (Obscure Quotes) There is a culture among academics to be obscure. If you’re too clear, you can’t be saying anything interesting. The issue isn’t word length. The issue is a commitment to speaking in a way an audience can understand (Obscure Quotes) I have a diverse audience, which is great, because I like doing things that are a bit more obscure, and I love doing things that are very popular as well. Each has its own bit of joy. So I try to mix it up (Obscure Quotes) Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human failings (Obscure Quotes) Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having; it tends to obscure desperation about where the next word is coming from (Obscure Quotes) For most people it’s easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged (Obscure Quotes) Poetry, in the entire course of its development, has always been trying to capture meanings and problems which are still obscure and dormant. Poetry tries to awaken them with a kiss, wherever they may be: in the air, in things, in human beings (Obscure Quotes) True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language, as if strengthened by its own medium, to shine even more fully on the original (Obscure Quotes) People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt (Obscure Quotes) Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists (Obscure Quotes) Law has been called a bottomless pit, not so much because of its depth, as that its windings are so obscure nobody can see the end (Obscure Quotes) Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure (Obscure Quotes) There are three kinds of explanation in science: explanations which throw a light upon, or give a hint at a matter; explanations which do not explain anything; and explanations which obscure everything (Obscure Quotes) Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it (Obscure Quotes) A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues (Obscure Quotes) Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system (Obscure Quotes) I’ve always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that’s where I belong, that’s where my work belongs (Obscure Quotes) Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it (Obscure Quotes) He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood (Obscure Quotes) Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite (Obscure Quotes) An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought (Obscure Quotes) That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall (Obscure Quotes) Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure (Obscure Quotes) When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music (Obscure Quotes) My own belief is that in most ages and in most places obscure psychological forces led men to adopt systems involving quite unnecessary cruelty, and that this is still the case among the most civilized races at the present day (Obscure Quotes) The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls upon the dreamer (Obscure Quotes) Before this trip and all that she’d learned about the three of them, she would have gotten angry or changed the subject. Anything to obscure the pain she felt. Now she knew better. You carried your pain with you in life. There was no outrunning it (Obscure Quotes) He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage (Obscure Quotes) This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed (Obscure Quotes)

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