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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)
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
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
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)
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."
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
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
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))
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
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)
You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else’s narrative.
nassim nicholas taleb— p. 17 (The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010))
Philosophy! In whose light, like that in Milton's hell, only serves to make the shadows visible.
Ge rard de pseudonym of Ge rard Labrunie Nerval— 1852 Fragments,'Paradoxe et ve rite ' .
To make myself visible as I am now, when I sense that the cadaver that I occupy is almost worn out or that the organs are no longer working very well, I breathe myself into a young body that has just died.
cyrano de bergerac— Sun-being to Cyrano
There is a wheel within a wheel; a secret sacred wheel of Providence (most visible in marriages), guided by His hand that allows not the race to the swift nor bread to the wise, nor good wives to good men: and He that can bring good out of evil (for mortals are blind to this reason) only knows why this blessing was denied to patient Job, to meek Moses, and to our as meek and patient Mr Hooker.
Richard Hooker— Izaak Walton, in Philip B. Secor, Richard Hooker: Prophet of Anglicanism and Son of Exeter. Walton (August 9, 1593 - December 15, 1683) was the chief biographer of Hooker.
Under a forehead roughly comparable to that of the Javanese or the Piltdown man are visible a pair of tiny pig eyes, lit up alternately by greed and concupiscence. His nose, broken in childhood by a self-inflicted blow with a hockey stick, has a prehensile tip, ever quick to smell out an insult; at the least suspicion of an affront, Perelman, who has the pride of a Spanish grandee, has been known to whip out his sword-cane and hide in the nearest closet.
s. j. perelman— The Best of S. J. Perelman, Introduction (1947)
— The Introduction was written under the name "Sidney Namlerep".
No government is perfect. One of the chief virtues of a democracy, however, is that its defects are always visible and under democratic processes can be pointed out and corrected.
harry s. truman— Speech to a joint session of the US Congress (12 March 1947), outlining what became known as The Truman Doctrine.
Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!
ambrose bierce— p. 373 (Epigrams)
The aerial canoe had no visible means of support, he thought, and it was a measure of his terror that he did not even think about his pun. No visible means of support. Like a magical vessel out of The Thousand and One Nights .
philip josé farmer— Chapter 1 (pp. 5-6)
Ford was of the first order of poets. He sought for sublimity, not by parcels in metaphors or visible images, but directly where she has her full residence in the heart of man; in the actions and sufferings of the greatest minds.
— Charles Lamb Specimens of English Dramatic Poets ([1808] 1854) p. 228.
I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.
lucy larcom— Journal entry (2 March 1861), Ch. 5 : The Beginning of the War
Whether (If) in a banquet somebody was to take it upon himself to snatch pieces from the mouth of the guests, we would be unanimous to find the method iniquitous and brutal (or violent), but if from another source ("par ailleurs", Fr.) the same is practised in a less apparent (or visible) way (or guise), we hardly show ourselves offended (or shocked) by it ("quand par ailleurs la chose se pratique sous une forme moins apparente, on ne s'en montre guère offusqué." Fr.)
african spir— p. 46 (Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937))
The dress of a woman of Lhassa, in its place is an invisible element of that place made visible.
wallace stevens— "Anecdote of Men by the Thousand"
Just as the light of the sun irradiates the organ of vision and things visible, enabling the former to see and the latter to be seen, so too the irradiation of a spiritual light brings the mind into relation with that which is intelligible.
— Commentary on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, i.17 as quoted by Francis Seymour Stevenson, Robert Grosseteste: Bishop of Lincoln, p.52 (footnote 2)
Art is the magic mirror you make to reflect your invisible dreams in visible pictures. You use a glass mirror to see your face : you use works of art to see your soul.
— George Bernard Shaw, in Back to Methuselah (1921), The She-Ancient, in Pt. V
One may call the world a myth , in which bodies and things are visible, but souls and minds hidden. Besides, to wish to teach the whole truth about the Gods to all produces contempt in the foolish, because they cannot understand, and lack of zeal in the good, whereas to conceal the truth by myths prevents the contempt of the foolish, and compels the good to practice philosophy.
— III. Concerning myths; that they are divine, and why.
