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A person in a rented apartment must be able to lean out of his window and scrape off the masonry within arm's reach. And he must be allowed to take a long brush and paint everything outside within arm's reach. So that it will be visible from afar to everyone in the street that someone lives there who is different from the imprisoned, enslaved, standardised man who lives next door.
friedensreich hundertwasser— Window Dictatorship and Window Rights (1990)
This whole which is visible in different ways in bodies, as far as formation, constitution, appearance, colors and other properties and common qualities, is none other than the diverse face of the same substance a changeable, mobile face, subject to decay, of an immobile, permanent and eternal being.
giordano bruno— As translated by Paul Harrison
Mime makes the invisible, visible and the visible, invisible.
Marcel Marceau— As quoted in Core Media Collection for Elementary Schools (1978) by Lucy Gregor Brown; unsourced variant or misquotation: "A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime makes the invisible visible."
When the first just and friendly man appeared on the earth, from that day a fatal Waterloo was visible for all the men of pride and fraud and blood.
charles fletcher dole— The Coming People (1897)
Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream.
lewis h. lapham— Chapter 1, The Gilded Cage, p. 28
Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream.
— Lewis H. Lapham, Money and Class in America,Chapter 1, The Gilded Cage, p. 28
Treading beneath their feet all visible things, As steps that upwards to their Father's throne Lead gradual.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Religious Musings
We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.
lewis h. lapham— Balzac's Garret, p. 88
Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are visible at the same time.
pierre stephen robert payne— The Five faces of Corruption, p. 31 (See also: Samuel P. Huntington..)
Lastly, and doubtless always, but particularly at the end of the last century, certain scholars considered that since the appearances on our scale were finally the only important ones for us, there was no point in seeking what might exist in an inaccessible domain. I find it very difficult to understand this point of view since what is inaccessible today may become accessible tomorrow (as has happened by the invention of the microscope), and also because coherent assumptions on what is still invisible may increase our understanding of the visible.
Jean Baptiste Perrin— Nobel Lecture (11 December 1926)
“It was not the sense that something had been there. It was the sense that something was still there, palpable but not visible. A sense (and now he thought he was really losing his mind) that the forest was grieving, or that something in it was dying…a feeling, if he had to name it, that evil had been there.”
lis wiehl— pp. 24, 26 (Waking Hours: Book 1 in East Salem Trilogy with Pete Nelson (Thomas Nelson))
A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The best film portraits not only evoke that enigma but ingest it in a process that renders what's invisible visible.
damian pettigrew— On documentary subject matter, Le Parisien (May, 2003)
Clothes are our weapons, our challenges, our visible insults.
— 1967 'Notes for a Theory of Sixties Style', in New Society (1967). Collected in Nothing Sacred (1982).
He delights to expose the raw nerves of evil, showing it as a force in the world, a skeletonlike figure working visible mischief in the ordinary everydayaffairs of men and women and children.
Richard Church— Of Graham Greene. Recalled on Greene's death in the NewYork Times, 4 Apr1991.
'Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti— 1881The House of Life,'Silent Noon', pt.1.
I can see no hope at present of such a vaccine being produced... I have adopted a frankly defeatist attitude towards the problem of poliomyelitis and I hope that future developments will prove me wrong... No means of controlling poliomyelitis is at present visible.
frank macfarlane burnet— Burnet, F.M. (1949) "Some aspects of the epidemiology of poliomyelitis". in: Proc. Royal Australasian College of Physicians. 4: 95-100.
— Quote from 1949 on the development of a poliomyelitis vaccine, which was developed later that year.
The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not sufficient to meet the challenges of the seventies.
coretta scott king— As quoted in The Quotable Woman (1978) by Elaine Partnow, p. 390
Para uno de esos gnosticos, el visible universo era una ilusion o (mas precisamente) un sofisma. Los espejos y la paternidad son abominables porque lo multiplican y lo divulgan.
jorge luis borges— For one of those gnostics, the visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.
Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless more which have never before been seen, exposing these plainly to the eye in numbers ten times exceeding the old and familiar stars.
Galileo Galilei— Translation by Stillman Drake in Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo (1957)
The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm.
john locke— Sec. 115 (Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693))
Technic is the result of a need new needs demand new technics total control denial of the accident States of order organic intensity energy and motion made visible memories arrested in space, human needs and motives acceptance
jackson pollock— Around 1948-‘49; as quoted in Abstract Expressionism (1990), David Anfam, p. 121Pollock wrote this text on the back of a photo of himself taken in his own studio.
The reality is in this head. Mine. I'm the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, and sometimes other orifices also.
thomas pynchon— Chapter 3 (The Crying of Lot 49 (1966))
I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad . So far as I can see, it is the principal cause of the decadence so visible today in the Muslim world and, though less absurd than the polytheism of old, its social and political tendencies are in my opinion to be feared, and I therefore regard it as a form of decadence rather than a form of progress in relation to paganism itself.
alexis de tocqueville— Letter to Arthur de Gobineau, 22 October 1843, Tocqueville Reader, p. 229
A trader is trusted upon his character and visible commerce: that credit enables him to acquire wealth. If by secret liens a few might swallow up all, it would greatly damp that credit.
— Lord Mansfield, Worseley v. Demattos (1758), 1 Burr. Part IV., p. 483.
Yet from those flames no light, but rather darkness visible.
john milton— John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book I, line 62.
TM, Erhard Seminars Training (est), and the Rajneesh Foundation are currently the most visible NRMs offering a release service to clients in Western Europe, but a large number of smaller groups are also in operation.
— James A. Beckford (1987). New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change. SAGE Publications Ltd. p. 44. ISBN 0803985916.
It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had, being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity."
— VI, 23, referring to mining operations.
The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.
— Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 911-17.
