The purpose of this chapter is to analyze Kant’s approach to writing philosophical texts, as such. By his own admission, Kant struggled with making his texts clear. He viewed this problem as not only technical, but as properly philosophical. It will be demonstrated that Kant carefully analyzed different types of linguistic clarity in his Lectures on Logic, that he fully recognized the difficulty of achieving them in practice, and that he nevertheless granted his readers the ‘right’ to ‘legitimately demand’ a certain level of clarity in principle. It will then be examined how and why Kant deployed various forms of metaphorical language to meet this challenge – a strategy which has, in turn, opened promising avenues for scholars interpreting his works. An analysis of the Critique of Pure Reason will illustrate how Kant ingeniously exploited metaphors to combine “discursive (logical) clarity” with “intuitive (aesthetic) clarity,” aiming for an ideal he termed “lucidity [Helligkeit].” In particular, the discursive structure of the Critique is represented here through an analogical model based on Kant’s vividly metaphorical description of moral character formation in the Anthropology.