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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)
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))
Prejudice, n. Avagrant opinion without visible means of support.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce— 1906 The Cynic's Word Book. Retitled The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
I desire to exercise my faith in the difficultest points, for to credit ordinary and visible objects is not faith but persuasion.
— 1634-5 Religio Medici (published1643), pt.1, section 6.
Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.
Herman Melville— 1851Moby Dick, ch.42.
A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.
walter gropius— The Observer (London), "Sayings of the Week"
Since co-founding People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals 21 years ago, Ingrid Newkirk has emerged as one of the shining lights of the animal rights movement. Through the use of shock tactics and a continuing series of controversial media campaigns, Newkirk and PETA have been able to effect change where other animal rights activists have failed miserably. Although criticized at one point or another by seemingly everybody under the sun, PETA nevertheless has a world-wide membership of over 300,000 activists and continues to be one of the most visible animal rights organizations in the world.
ingrid newkirk— Chris Barry, Montreal Mirror [20]
What is important to me in my work is the identity that is hidden behind so-called reality. I search for a bridge from the given present tot the invisible, rather as a famous cabalist once said, ‘If you wish to grasp the invisible, penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible’.
max beckmann— In: his public speech 'On my painting' for the exhibition 'Twentieth-Century German Art', London, 21 July 1938; as quoted in Max Beckmann, Stephan Lackner, Bonfini Press Corporation, Naefels, Switzerland, 1983, p. 77
Her finely touched spirit had still its fine issues, though they were not widely visible. Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth. But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life , and rest in unvisited tombs.
george eliot— Last lines (Middlemarch (1871))
Newton was not the first of the age of reason . He was the last of the magicians , the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind that looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10 000 years ago.
john maynard keynes— Address to the Royal Society Club (1942), as quoted in A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (1977) by Alan L. MacKay, p.140
There's a dream where the contents are visible Where the poetic champions compose Will you breathe not a word of this secrecy, and Will you still be my special rose?
van morrison— Queen of the Slipstream
...thousands of little children occupy sleeping quarters with parents and boarders whose every act is visible to all. Morality indeed! Society is much like the ostrich with its head in the sand. It will not look at facts and face the responsibility of its own stupidity.
margaret sanger— "Morality and Birth Control", February-March, 1918, pp. 11,14.
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.
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, October 22, 1843.
Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.
— As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern (1908) by Tyron Edwards, p. 592
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
anthony robbins— Awaken the Giant Within
