Zitat des Tages über Ungesehen / Unseen:
Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.
Love comes unseen; we only see it go.
All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to?
Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
If you try to make such projects, unseen by others, as perfect as any human could, you'll develop skills that other professionals don't have.
Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.
Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.
My grandfather was a faith healer and medium, and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.
Ultimately, I just made the decision to move to L.A. sight unseen. It took me a while to save up some money to do it.
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.
In both the presence of evil and the eventual triumph over evil the sweep is cosmic. It embraces the entire universe, what to man is both seen and unseen. The victory is to be accomplished through Christ.
All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place.
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career.
Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.
Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.
I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.
Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
In every age have mighty spirits dwelt unseen with man, biding the hour that needed them.
O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.
Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.
We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.
There's an unseen force which lets birds know when you've just washed your car.
By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung.
In a world of oversharing, we don't want to be unknown or unseen. We don't want to be left out.
