23 Quotes Tagged: invisible

"What did you do to help the invisible man?"
And he felt the monster's voice again, like it was in his own head.
I made them see, it said.

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.

I've felt as if I didn't exist, as if I were invisible, miles away from the world, miles away. You can't imagine how much alone I've been all my life.

The invisible are always so resolutely invisible, until you see them.

Be good at the depth of you, and you will discover that those who surround you will be good even to the same depths. Nothing responds more infallibly to the secret cry of goodness than the secret cry of goodness that is near. While you are actively good in the invisible, all those who approach you will unconsciously do things that they could not do by the side of any other man.

This is the secret of propaganda:
He, who is the target of propaganda,
should be completely immersed in the ideas of propaganda,
without him ever noticing, that he is being immersed.

Das ist das Geheimnis der Propaganda:
Den, den die Propaganda fassen will,
ganz mit den Ideen der Propaganda zu durchtränken,
ohne dass er überhaupt merkt, dass er durchtränkt wird.

This invisible and divine goodness, of which I only speak here because of its being one of the surest and nearest signs of the unceasing activity of our soul, this invisible and divine goodness ennobles, in decisive fashion, all that it has unconsciously touched.

"After a seven days' march through woodland, the traveler directed toward Baucis cannot see the city and yet he has arrived. The slender stilts that rise from the ground at a great distance from one another and are lost above the clouds support the city. You climb them with ladders. On the ground the inhabitants rarely show themselves: having already everything they need up there, they prefer not to come down. Nothing of the city touches the earth except those long flamingo legs on which it rests and, when the days are sunny, a pierced, angular shadow that falls on the foilage.

"There are three hypotheses about the inhabitants of Baucis: that they hate the earth; that they respect it so much they avoid all contact; that they love it as it was before they existed and with spyglasses and telescopes aimed downward they never tire of examining it, leaf by leaf, stone by stone, ant by ant, contemplating with fascination their own absence.

The ultimate concept car will move so fast, even at rest, as to be invisible.

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible

People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Tell her I was young once and star-bright
Who am now invisible . . .

The people stared through her as though she were invisible until she thought she was, and walked more easily then, just a cloud reflected in a stream.

O may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by their presence; live
In pulses stirred to generosity,
In deeds of daring rectitude...

When you're working, some people relax and wait for the invisible right time, but when they see your fortune, they wake up and strategize an envious attack.