#obscure

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care. ↗

— William Blake

#explicit #grand #idiot #made #men

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#clearly #human #human affairs #known #nothing

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#becomes #concrete #obscure #thought #unconscious

The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games are about, it is really necessary to investigate the roots and the meaning that has transformed culture and society for so many years. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#ancient #culture #games #investigate #just

Be obscure clearly. ↗

— E. B. White

#clearly #obscure

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#day #deal #effort #every #every day

Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions. ↗

— Tom G. Palmer

#illuminates #important #obscures #personification #political

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear. ↗

— David Seabury

#complex #comradeship #intellectual #make #obscure

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary. ↗

— Henry Miller

#communication #except #few #good #great

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man. ↗

— Barbara Pym

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