The Blaze of Obscurity Quotes

“Socrates, after all, said that the unexamined life was not worth living. He might have added, however, that continual self-examination would leave us no time to live.”
― Clive James, The Blaze of Obscurity: The TV Years

“Nationalism, as a state of mind, is all fervour and no judgement. National pride, however, is a different and better thing.”
― Clive James, The Blaze of Obscurity: The TV Years

“The middle of the sentence had already left the beginning of the sentence lost in the distance, and the end of the sentence was slower to arrive than a school holiday.”
― Clive James, The Blaze of Obscurity: The TV Years

“To put it briefly, the secret is to put it briefly. But you always think that’s what you’re doing, until experience teaches you that you aren’t being brief enough.”
― Clive James, The Blaze of Obscurity: The TV Years

“the application of effort should always be exactly measured: nothing by force, everything by logical progression.”
― Clive James, The Blaze of Obscurity: The TV Years