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Quotes About Visible

La Belleza, Fedro mío, y solo ella es a la vez visible y digna de ser amada: es, tenlo muy presente, la única forma de lo espiritual que podemos aprehender y tolerar con los sentidos.
~ Thomas Mann
La Belleza, Fedro, tenlo muy presente, solo la Belleza es a la vez visible y divina, y por ello es también el camino de lo sensible, es, mi pequeño Fedro, el camino del artista hacia el espíritu.
~ Thomas Mann
To place your trust in visible things is to live in despair.
~ Thomas Merton
2. If, instead of trusting in God, I trust only in my own intelligence, my own strength, and my own prudence, the means that God has given to me to find my way to Him will all fail me. Nothing created is of any ultimate use without hope. To place your trust in visible things is to live in despair.
~ Thomas Merton
So it is here, grouped on the beach with strangers, that voices begin to take on a touch of metal, each word a hard-edged clap, and the light, though as bright as before, is less able to illuminate . . . it's a Puritan reflex of seeking other orders behind the visible, also known as paranoia, filtering in.
~ Thomas Pynchon
I thought of the Old English root of teach — tæcan , like token, and saw the token being passed like a visible object from teacher to pupil.
~ Kathryn Hulme
We are the visible and invisible effect of limitless karma — individual and collective social actions.
~ Kazuaki Tanahashi
Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record.
~ Ken Hensley
Despite all our plans to change, we never voluntarily do so at the core, in our essence, which is usually where we find the knot of our worst defects. I could change it — and I surely would have already — if it were a visible defect, like a limp or acne; but it isn't.
~ César Aira
The mercy which happened to me gave me belief, hope, and sufficient daring, not to resist further the spirit of the depths, but to utter his word. But before I could pull myself together to really do it, I needed a visible sign that would show me that the spirit of the depths in me was at the same time the ruler of the depths of world affairs.
~ C.G. Jung
Busyness as Proxy for Productivity: In the absence of clear indicators of what it means to be productive and valuable in their jobs, many knowledge workers turn back toward an industrial indicator of productivity: doing lots of stuff in a visible manner.
~ Cal newport
Busyness as Proxy for Productivity: In the absence of clear indicators of what it means to be productive and valuable in their jobs, many knowledge workers turn back toward an industrial indicator of productivity: doing lots of stuff in a visible manner. This
~ Cal newport
Knowledge workers, I'm arguing, are tending toward increasingly visible busyness because they lack a better way to demonstrate their value.
~ Cal newport
Knowledge workers, I'm arguing, are tending toward increasingly visible busyness because they lack a better way to demonstrate their value. Let's give this tendency a name. Busyness as Proxy for Productivity:
~ Cal newport
His distinguishing thirty-two characteristics And the eighty different attractive features seem to be visible, Yet in reality, his form is neither with nor without features. All visible features are transcended. Without having features His body has features. This is also true of the features Of the bodies of all living beings.
~ Gene Reeves
Evil is visible, it burns, it smugly displays itself for all to see.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
What we really are seems much more like an obscure system of energy out of which choices and visible acts of will emerge at intervals in ways which are often unclear and often dependent on the condition of the system in between moments of choice.
~ Iris Murdoch
Could she endure it, the long vigil of death made visible?
~ Iris Murdoch
Los afrodisíacos son como la magia negra. Les aconsejo que si piensan administrarlos, se lo anuncien a la víctima si quieren resultados visibles.
~ Isabel Allende
I mean by this Sacrament an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.
~ Book of Common Prayer
As lacking in privacy as a goldfish.
~ Anonymous
I wish that there were bloodstains or tears, something to outwardly show how hurt I am.
~ Suzanne Young
We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We favor the sensational and the extremely visible. This affects the way we judge heroes. There is little room in our consciousness for heroes who do not deliver visible results—or those heroes who focus on process rather than results.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb