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Obviousness is always the enemy of correctness. -- Bertrand Russell
Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time. -- Albert Einstein
The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing. -- Oscar Wilde
It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act. -- Paulo Freire
My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world. -- John Fowles
Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel, draws off the banal obviousness of this ancient architecture to inject it with the most pristine intensity... -- Louis Aragon
There's a depth of meaning all on its own in awareness being gentled. From within the subtlety of being gentled, the level of perception changes. Instead of perceiving the obviousness of experience, you're able as awareness to perceive most subtle meaning. -- John de Ruiter
"The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that therefore uncritically seizes upon the most simplistic and abstract ways of filling its vacuous self-consciousness. Not philosophy but dogma and rhetoric, not rationality but indoctrination and conditioning, provide the cultural junkfood by which the Many perfunctorily slake their thirst and hunger. -- Kenny Smith
For if we merely take what obviously appears the line of least resistance, its obviousness will appeal to the opponent also; and this line may no longer be that of least resistance. In studying the physical aspect, we must never lose sight of the psychological, and only when both are combined is the strategy truly an indirect approach, calculated to dislocate the opponent's balance. -- B. H. Liddell Hart

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