Invisible Quotes

This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

Each person is oriented toward a quest for his personal invisible guide, or . . . he entrusts himself to the collective, magisterial authority as the intermediary between himself and Revelation.

Have a vision. It is the ability to see the invisible. If you can see the invisible, you can achieve the impossible.

Mime makes the invisible, visible and the visible, invisible.

Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather necessarily, leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to society... He intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was not part of his intention

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Mediocrity is always invisible until passion shows up and exposes it.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.

Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention

Invisible things are the only realities.

Nature is a light, and by looking at Nature in her own light we will understand her. Visible Nature may be seen in her visible light; invisible Nature may become visible if we acquire the power to perceive her invisible light.

Privilege is invisible to those who have it.

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.

Art is animated by invisible forces that rule the universe.

We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.

What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

A thing which is present can be invisible, hidden by what it shows