Quotes of Immaterial - somelinesforyou

“ The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips. ”

- Francois de Salignac Fenelon

“ Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible. ”

- Unknown

“ Logic works, metaphysics contemplates. ”

- Joseph Joubert

“ The corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. ”

- John Marshall

“ It's autumn... and everybody feels like a disembodied spirit then. ”

- D. H. Lawrence

“ Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfillment but adjustment. ”

- Louis Kronenberger

“ Religion is the metaphysics of the masses. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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

- Joseph Joubert

“ MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important. Material things I know, or fell, or see; All else is immaterial to me. Jamrach Holobom. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ The concentration and dedication — the intangibles are the deciding factors between who won and who lost. ”

- Tom Seaver

“ There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery. ”

- Joseph Conrad

“ I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting. ”

- Lord Byron

“ It is a common error to suppose that the Higher Life is a matter of reading, and the adoption of theological or metaphysical hypotheses, and that Spiritual Principles can be apprehended by this method. ”

- James Allen

“ Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence — neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish — it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward… ”

- Maya Angelou

“ Before I put a sketch on paper, the whole idea is worked out mentally. In my mind I change the construction, make improvements, and even operate the device. Without ever having drawn a sketch I can give the measurements of all parts to workmen, and when completed all these parts will fit, just as certainly as though I had made the actual drawings… ”

- Nikola Tesla
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