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• When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Distance, Boys, Two

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• Prohibiting a visible religious sign, which isn't a manifestation of militancy, would look like a fight against religions.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Religious, Fighting, Looks

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• Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.

  Ron Suskind

  War, Troops

  "The President Knows more than He Lets on". Interview with Matthias Gebauer and Georg Mascolo, www.spiegel.de. October 27, 2006.

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• The university is in danger of losing its monopoly, and for good reason. The most visible threat are the new online courses, many of them free, with some of the best professors in their respective fields.

  Don Tapscott

  Fields, Losing, Reason

  "Discovery Learning Is the New Higher Learning" by Don Tapscott, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2012.

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• Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Feelings, Reason, Rejects

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.272, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• True success does not always come in forms that are visible or measurable.

  Mike Hernacki

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

  Hernacki, Mike “The Forgotten Secret to Phenomenal Success”, Pelican Publishing

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• The human being, creature of eyes, needs the image.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Needs, Invisible

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• By means of the iconic, artists express their view of reality and show their understanding of the structure of reality. They see what they know and bring this into their paintings. ... They always give us more than the facts, more than the eye can see.

  Hans Rookmaaker

  Mean, Eye, Artist

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• Lord, spit on our eyes that we may see, how to wake up from this tragedy.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Eye, Tragedy, Wake Up

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• We have a 'now you see Him, now you don't' God. We have Himself clothed in visions, in dreams, in metaphors, in parables, in the poetry of the Bible, and in all the ordinariness of the lives we live.

  Luci Shaw

  Dream, Vision, Invisible

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• In these gaudy times, we think we will shortly reach the point where everything is known, but the fact is we are ignoring the essential, which is love of all living things, of all beauty both visible and hidden.

  Georges Rouault

  Thinking, Essentials, Facts

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• I am no disbeliever in spiritual purpose and no vague believer. I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that for me the meaning of life is centered in our Redemption by Christ and what I see in the world I see in relation to that.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Christian, Spiritual, Mean

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.32, Macmillan

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• For the most part, of course, the presence of the great spiritual universe surrounding us is no more noticed by us than the pressure of air on our bodies, or the action of light. Our field of attention is not wide enough for that; our spiritual senses are not sufficiently alert. Most people work so hard at developing their correspondence with the visible world, that their power of correspondence with the invisible is left in a rudimentary state.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Spiritual, Light, Air

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• Because the one who by excellency of nature transcends all quantity and size and magnitude...has now...contracted himself into a quantity and size and has acquired a physical identity, do not hesitate any longer to draw pictures and to set forth, for all to see, him who has chosen to let himself be seen.

  John of Damascus

  Identity, Size, Invisible

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• O supreme and unapproachable light! O whole and blessed truth, how far art thou from me, who am so near to thee! How far removed art thou from my vision, though I am so near to thine! Everywhere thou art wholly present, and I see thee not. In thee I move, and in thee I have my being; and I cannot come to thee. Thou art within me, and about me, and I feel thee not.

  Anselm of Canterbury

  Art, Moving, Blessed

  St. Anselm of Canterbury “Anselm's Philosophy”, Lulu.com

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• Hope always draws the soul from the beauty which is seen to what is beyond, always kindles the desire for the hidden through what is constantly perceived. Therefore, the ardent lover of beauty, although receiving what is always visible as an image of what he desires, yet longs to be filled with the very stamp of the archetype.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Soul, Desire, Receiving

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• Male female slave or free; peaceful or disorderly; maybe you and he will not agree; but you need him to show you new ways to see.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Peaceful, Males, Female

  Song: Maybe The Poet, 2010

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• Little round planet in a big universe, sometimes it looks blessed, sometimes it looks cursed. Depends what you look at obviously, but even more it depends on the way that you see.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Blessed, Looks, Littles

  Song: Child of the Wind

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• All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.

  C. S. Lewis

  Unattainable, Consciousness, Invisible

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• We stayed a long, long time, to see you, to meet you, to see you at last.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Long, Lasts, Invisible

  Song: In The Devil's Territory, Album: Seven Swans, 2004

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• When we pray, we must begin by conceiving God in full and vigorous images, but we must go on to acknowledge the inadequacy of them and to adhere nakedly to the imageless truth of God.

  Austin Farrer

  Goes On, Praying, Invisible

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• The crucial revelatory images that express 'the thought of Christ' are present in scripture and reinforced in worship.

  Austin Farrer

  Scripture, Worship, Christ

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• We do not know what we see, but we see what we know.

  Hans Rookmaaker

  Invisible, Knows, Seeing

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• Perhaps art can help us to look beyond the immediate beauty with all its puzzles, and to glimpse that new creation which makes sense not only of beauty but of the world as a whole, and ourselves within it ... The artist can then join forces with those who work for justice and those who struggle for redemptive relationships, and together encourage and sustain those who are reaching out for a genuine, redemptive spirituality.

  N. T. Wright

  Art, Struggle, Justice

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• Disguise is central to God's way of dealing with us human beings. Not because God is playing games with us but because the God who is beyond our knowing makes himself known in the disguise of what we can know. The Christian word for this is revelation, and the ultimate revelation came by incarnation. ... God is the master of disguises, in order that we might see.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Christian, Playing Games, Order

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