Quotes with visible

  • The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.
  • Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.
  • Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

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  • Jean Cocteau I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Walter Gropius A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.
    Walter Gropius
     
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  • Samuel Johnson Actions are visible, though motives are secret.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Vaclav Havel Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Victor Hugo A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Paul Klee Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Caroline Knapp Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Jean Baudrillard Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg 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?
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge I believe that the fewer the laws in a home the better; but there is one law which should be as plainly understood as the shining of the sun is visible at noonday, and that is, implicit and instantaneous obedience from the child to the parent, not only for the peace of the home, but for the highest good of the child.
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • Anne Rice I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • William Winwood Reade If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.
    William Winwood Reade
    British historian (1838 - 1875)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Robert Fulghum Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
    Robert Fulghum
    American author and minister (1937 - )
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  • Robert Bresson Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
    Robert Bresson
    French film director (1901 - 1999)
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  • Victor Hugo One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Alan Lakein One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day.
    Alan Lakein
    American author on personal time management
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  • Colette Dowling Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance of death.
    Colette Dowling
     
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  • Tony Robbins Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
    Tony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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