A Quote by Gertrud von Le Fort

Symbols are the language of something invisible spoken in the visible world.

Gertrud von Le Fort

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Invisible Language Something Spoken Symbols Visible World

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Gertrud von Le Fort
German - Writer
October 11, 1876 - November 1, 1971

Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible – and I make use of painting to render thoughts visible.

Rene Magritte

Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.

Saint Augustine

What we really are is a community of mind, knitted together by codes and symbols, intuitions, aspirations, histories, hopes - the invisible world of the human experience is far more real to us than the visible world, which is little more than a kind of stage or screen on which we move.

Terence McKenna

Science is not the enemy of humanity but one of the deepest expressions of the human desire to realize that vision of infinite knowledge. Science shows us that the visible world is neither matter nor spirit; the visible world is the invisible organization of energy.

Heinz Pagels

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

Marcel Marceau

The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.

Thomas Browne

The image is a great reminder how we create our world through interpretations made up of language and symbols. Our language and symbols are always incomplete versions of a greater reality. Here is why inquiry is such a powerful tool when compared to simple advocacy. Inquiry allows us to discover what might be outside the cave instead of arguing about the shadows on the wall.

Alan Briskin

I am the visible part of the invisible Christ. He is the invisible part of the visible me.

Adrian Rogers

As a chamber hung round about with looking-glasses represents the face upon every turn, thus all the world doth the mercy and the bounty of God; though that be visible, yet it discovers an invisible God and his invisible properties.

Anthony Burgess

Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible.

Rene Magritte

Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further along, a minaret - these symbols represent human life in all its diversity.