Rene Magritte
Surrealist Artist
"Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible."
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Immanuel Kant
Philosopher
"The hand is the visible part of the brain."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Make injustice visible."
Nikos Kazantzakis
Novelist, Playwright
"Only after I've seen the visible can I imagine what the invisible is."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible."
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"The soul...is audible, not visible."
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"If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?"
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"The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."
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"There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness."
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"Every idea must have a visible enfolding."
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"The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry."
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"The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all."
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"Everything we see… is just the visible part of reality."
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"The visible sign of utter love is an undying smile."
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"If you have something specific and visible to fear, rather than something that could be anything, it is easier."
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"Unused power was like a marionette with visible strings, nobody holding them. A compelling attraction: I could make it dance."
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"Make the visible a little hard to see."
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"All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature."
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"The most visible joy can only reveal itself to us when we've transformed it, within."
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"Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it."
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"The newest is but the oldest made visible to our senses."
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"The visible order of the universe proclaims a supreme intelligence."
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"Nature is the living, visible garment of God."
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