quotes about Lucidity

last updated: November 28, 2023

Lucidity, I maintain, is almost always desirable.
-- Yi-Fu Tuan

Source : Yi-Fu Tuan (2000). “Escapism”, p.23, JHU Press

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“Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You've taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.”
“In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.”
“In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ. The second kind of observer is the extreme reductionist who is so busy stripping things apart that the tremendous mystery has been reduced to a trifle, to intangibles not worth troubling one's head about.”
“God shields the souls of the innocent the best He can from the Devil's torments.”
“I always follow the rules. No fake co-productions. I know how to make content agreeable and acceptable.”
“Hip-hop is the fountain of youth. You just don't grow up if you were there. My son's 20. I'm on the same channel he's on. We wear the same clothes, we feel the same thing. It's a weird, weird generation we're in right now.”
“I never tried to prove anything to someone else. I wanted to prove something to myself.”
“There's nothing as beautiful and empowering in life than a memory.”
“The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior of particles but rather our knowledge of this behavior.”
“I can't just only be on reality TV and show everything when it's the fairy princess, fairytale, and then not take my hits when I have to.”