Visible Quotes - Page 5

• There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute.

  Confucius

  Character, Secret, Confucianism

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.384, Courier Corporation

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• And all that is therein; Invisible and visible, Their notes let all things blend, For Christ the Lord is risen. Our joy that hath no end.

  John of Damascus

  Easter, Joy, Christ

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• The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though hidden from our eyes. To this double nature of the visible and invisible world - to the profound longing for the latter, coupled with the feeling of the sweet necessity for the former, we owe all sound and logical systems of philosophy, truly based on the immutable principles of our nature, just as from the same source arise the most senseless enthusiasms.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Spiritual, Sweet, Nature

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• Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  War, Food, Wine

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook A 14, 1799.

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• It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth.

  Albert Einstein

  Feelings, Unity, Magnificent

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• My aim is to show the visible as possibility in a state of perpetual becoming.

  Yaacov Agam

  Becoming, Possibility, States

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• My intention was to create a work of art which would transcend the visible, which cannot be perceived except in stages, with the understanding that it is a partial revelation and not the perpetuation of the existing. My aim is to show what can be seen within the limits of possibility which exists in the midst of coming into being.

  Yaacov Agam

  Art, Understanding, Limits

  Yaacov Agam, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1980). “Homage to Yaacov Agam: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum exhibition, 1980”, Book Sales

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• To me photography can be simultaneously both a record and a mirror or window of self-expression the camera is generally assumed to be unable to depict that which is not visible to the eye and yet, the photographer who wields it well can depict what lies unseen in his memory.

  Eikoh Hosoe

  Photography, Memories, Lying

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• I'm very much a word person, so that's why typography for me is the obvious extension. It just makes my words visible.

  Erik Spiekermann

  Typography, Obvious, Persons

  "Helvetica". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Because of the power of television, I was visible to everybody all over the world. But there are many things in the theater that are more fulfilling and that I look forward to doing more. But really, I love it all: theater, film, television.

  Charlotte Rae

  Looks, Television, World

  "Milwaukee Talks: Charlotte Rae". Interview with Molly Snyder, onmilwaukee.com. December 11, 2002.

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• Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.

  Christopher Plummer

  Evil, Smoking, Insulting

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• Most pointedly, nature-based people manifest the very qualities that contemporary psychotherapy, the recovery movement, and spiritual practices continually aim for: a visible sense of inner peace, unselfconscious humility, an urge to communal cooperation, and heartfelt appreciation for the world around them.

  Chellis Glendinning

  Spiritual, Appreciation, Recovery

  Chellis Glendinning (2007). “My Name Is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization”

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• It is revolutionary for any trans person to choose to be seen and visible in a world that tells us we should not exist.

  Laverne Cox

  World, Revolutionary, Should

  FaceBook post by Laverne Cox from Mar 18, 2014

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• The goal of a designer is to listen, observe, understand, sympathize, empathize, synthesize and glean insights that enable him or her to “make the invisible visible

  Hillman Curtis

  Goal, Designer, Invisible

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• Changing the way we talk is not political correctness run amok. It reflects an admirable willingness to acknowledge others who once were barely visible to the dominant culture, and to recognize that something that may seem innocent to you may be painful to others.

  David Plotz

  Running, Political, Culture

  "Why Slate will no longer refer to Washington’s NFL team as the Redskins". www.slate.com. August 8, 2013.

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• For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but the vindication of a worldview.

  Amy Davidson

  Government, Wings, Embarrassment

  "Obama’s Speech: Guns and Government" by Amy Davidson Sorkin, www.newyorker.com. February 12, 2013.

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• We've focused a lot on visible evidence. We believe that a community needs to make the visible statement about who the community is.

  James Hunt

  Believe, Community, Needs

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• A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.

  Walter Gropius

  Democracy, Architecture, Modern

  "Words of Art: Inspiring Quotes from the Masters". Book published by Adams Media, 2013.

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• Whether our feet are compressed in iron shoes, our faces hidden with veils and masks; whether yoked with cows to draw the plow through its furrows, or classed with idiots, lunatics and criminals in the laws and constitutions of the State, the principle is the same; for the humiliations of the spirit are as real as the visible badges of servitude.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Real, Law, Shoes

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ellen Carol DuBois (1992). “The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches”, Northeastern Univ Pr

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• People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.

  Ray Bradbury

  Future, Air, People

  "Beyond 1984: The People Machines". Book by Ray Bradbury, 1979.

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• The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world. Name it the mystical region, or the supernatural region, whichever you choose. So far as our ideal impulses originate in this region (and most of them do originate in it, for we find them possessing us in a way for which we cannot articulately account), we belong to it in a more intimate sense than that in which we belong to the visible world, for we belong in the most intimate sense wherever our ideals belong.

  William James

  Names, World, Way

  William James (1970). “Essays in Pragmatism”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

  Pericles

  Reality, Men, Stories

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• I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched flocks of maids labor so that the adulteress may be visible through her thin dress, so that her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife's body.

  Seneca the Younger

  Husband, Clothes, Wife

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• Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Self, Soul, Elements

  Elizabeth Bishop, “The Imaginary Iceberg”

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• Kurt Godel's achievement in modern logic is singular and monumental - indeed it is more than a monument, it is a landmark which will remain visible far in space and time. ... The subject of logic has certainly completely changed its nature and possibilities with Godel's achievement.

  John von Neumann

  Space, Achievement, Logic

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