A Quote by Hugh Kingsmill
A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.
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We inhabit an obscure planet, in an obscure galaxy, around an obscure sun, but on the other hand, modern human society represents one of the most complex things we know.
If we confuse the gospel with response to the gospel, we will drift from what keeps the gospel on the ground, what makes it clear and personal, and the next thing you know, we will be doing
a bunch of different things that actually obscure the gospel, not reveal it.
Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
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.
Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.
In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled.
Whatever else the Book of Mormon makes clear, it makes clear that every soul in every dispensation is precious to God, and therefore no age or era was-or is-left without its witness of Christ.
Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.
Between the demand to be clear,and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect.
Hardship makes the world obscure.
Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.
If you find something obscure fascinating, learn as much about it as you can, because there's a good chance it won't be obscure for long.
To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.
On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.
Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and thatto compress it further can only make it more obscure?
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