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Apparitions Quotes

Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us.

Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shining, Apparitions
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.7, Library of America

It is the human condition to question one god after another, one appearance after another, or better, one apparition after another, always pursuing the truth of the imagination, which is not the same as the truth of appearance.

Emile Chartier
Imagination, Appearance, Apparitions
"The Gods". Book by Emile Chartier, 1934.

Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by.

Virginia Woolf
Dark, Apparitions, Surface
Virginia Woolf (2016). “To the Lighthouse”, p.58, Tyché

I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.

Pablo Picasso
Order, Canvas, Apparitions

Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man.

William Shakespeare
Men, Laughing, Apparitions
'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 79

I can call spirits from the vasty deep.

William Shakespeare
Spirit, Apparitions, I Can
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. [53]

The image wanders ghostlike through the present. Ghostly apparitions occur only in places where a terrible deed has been committed.

Siegfried Kracauer
Deeds, Apparitions, Wander

I often see through things right to the apparition itself.

Grace Paley
Apparitions

Glendower: I can call the spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come, when you do call for them?

William Shakespeare
Men, Spirit, Apparitions
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. [53]

The operation of consciousness has created the 'apparition' called 'me'.

Mooji
Consciousness, Apparitions, Operations

The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature, Ministry, Apparitions
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.61, Harvard University Press

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