Obscurity

(288 votes)   Obscurity brings safety.

Aesop
620-560 BC, Greek Fabulist

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(288 votes)   The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistance -- that is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(193 votes)   The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist

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(160 votes)   Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty: elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(157 votes)   Obscurity is the realm of error.

Marquis De Vauvenargues
1715-1747, French Moralist

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(131 votes)   More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.

Eric Hoffer
1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher

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(123 votes)   Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity -- a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.

David Lehman
1948-, American Poet, Editor, Critic

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(123 votes)   Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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