Quotes About Intangible

86. [Our aim is] neither to achieve the impossible, even by force, nor to maintain a theory which is in all respects similar either to our discussions on the ways of life or to our clarifications of other questions in physics, such as the thesis that the totality [of things] consists of bodies and intangible nature, and that the elements are atomic, and all such things as are consistent with the phenomena in only one way. This

Was it possible for the living to haunt their fellow creatures? For something as intangible as the mere memory of a gesture to slip into the subconscious unbidden and remain there until some firing synapse, some chemical key set it free?

His words are nothing more than mist and sunshine, impossible to hold down.

the thngs that matter most in this world can never be held in our hand.

She was too beautiful to excite me with the idea of accessibility.

but he was unreachable. As music is present yet you can't touch it...

Love is unworldly and nothing comes of it but love.

Love knows no time, or distance, and it certainly knows no reason.

Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.

Our love cannot be measured, it just is.

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features.

Power is also like love, easier to experience than to define or measure, but no less real for that.

Emotions are amorphous and uncontrollable.

Smells are odd things. They follow you about when you're not thinking about them, but when you put your nose to where they ought to be, they aren't there. The

Absent in body, but present in spirit.

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

Religion is a belief in invisible beings, inaudible voices, intangible entities, undetectable forces, and events and judgments that happen after we die. It therefore has no reality check. And it is therefore uniquely armored against criticism, questioning, and self-correction. It is uniquely armored against anything that might stop it from spinning into extreme absurdity, extreme denial of reality… and extreme, grotesque immorality.

The fetishism of the commodity — the domination of society by "intangible as well as tangible things" — attains its ultimate fulfillment in the spectacle, where the real world is replaced by a selection of images which are projected above it, yet which at the same time succeed in making themselves regarded as the epitome of reality.

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it.

Trust is probably the intangible, and cultivated of all characteristic.

You can't explain love" he said out loud. "That's how it gets ruined.

She once told me how she could feel the missing part of her arm- how she sometimes experienced the sensation of a hand- that it is possible to feel something without its physical presence. Perhaps love is like this and we are all limbs of one giant intangible body.

Our love can't be measured. It just is.