Quotes by Vagueness The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. Aleister Crowley vagueness evil doe Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both. Alexander Theroux vagueness yellow Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all. Bernard Levin vagueness political men None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error. Bertrand Russell vagueness errors belief Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth. Charles Ives vagueness indication perfect A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people. Edgar Degas vagueness people art Perhaps I became so vague, so exhilarated with vagueness, precisely in order to forestall a recognition of the final term of the syllogism that begins: If one man loves another he is a homosexual; I love a man. Edmund White vagueness men order In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent. Eugene Delacroix vagueness artist personality No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose. Eudora Welty vagueness clouds writing For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver. George Ade vagueness communication life And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless. Hector Hugh Munro vagueness alarms taken After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong, whereas you stand a good chance of not being wrong if you make it vague enough. J. L. Austin vagueness chance people The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed. John Rawls vagueness ends views Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit. John Updike vagueness procrastination comfort Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree. Norbert Wiener vagueness degrees ideas But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts. Richard Owen vagueness elude-us tests A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine. Sebastian Faulks vagueness mad imagine Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness. Stendhal vagueness hypocrisy math I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness. Wilfred Owen vagueness reading thinking The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. William James vagueness free-will race 12»