Quotes About Obscured

Indeed, Anselm, who is often seen as a key thinker in claiming that God is conceivable, writes that when gazing upon the Lord, the eye is darkened, noting that: Surely it is both darkened in itself and dazzled by you. Indeed it is both obscured by its own littleness and overwhelmed by your vastness.

When we ignore the connections between corporal punishments and authoritarianism, however, as most of us generally do, the etiology of authoritarianism is often obscured and the childhood roots of adult authoritarianism remain unnoticed.

The house on The Crescent, stepped into the hillside, had no face. In

This longing is for the one who is felt in the dark, but not seen in the day.

My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.

I don't know how many of you have been to New York, but if a building is two blocks away from anything, you can't see it.

Not always behind the scenes is it sunny.

Our eyes were of no more use to us than if we had been buried miles deep in a heap of cotton-wool.

Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.

Dietrologia is the idea that the obvious thing cannot be the truth. There is always something hidden behind, dietro.

The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.

[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand....

What distinguishes a technological world is that the terms of nature are obscured; one need not live quite in the present or the local.

I couldn't see you, no matter how I tried, if you moved around like a jellyfish.

The best director is the one you don't see.

Even the brightest sun can be obscured by clouds, this is the power of nature.

All the stars stay hidden behind the daylight.

The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music.

ce jour-là, il pleuvait démesurément. On ne voyait rien, si ben qu'on aurait pur être partout ailleurs.

The rain fell with such fervor that the world disappeared.

Fanciful spiritualizing, so far from yielding God's meaning, actually obscured it. The literal sense is itself the spiritual sense, coming from God and leading to Him.

A good deed hidden in silence dies.

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten