Ghostly Quotes

73 quotes by 60 authors

The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is… — Albert Einstein
Most people go on living their everyday life: half-frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragic-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before… — Albert Einstein
Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows and solidities are… — George Henry Lewes
With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and… — Edwin Powell Hubble
The ghostly presence of virtual particles defies rational common sense and is nonintuitive for those unacquainted with physics. Religious belief in God, and Christian belief… — Antony Hewish
I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet ... the evenings in late autumn time, when… — Jerome K. Jerome
Expectations of goals and rewards (such as Enlightenment) are recognized for what they are: last-ditch attempts by the ghostly self to subvert the process to… — Stephen Batchelor
Ghostly things don't really scare me, but they really intrigue me. — Sophie Turner
Everything has two aspects; the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical aspect, which only… — Giorgio de Chirico
At the last dim horizon, we search among ghostly errors of observations for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. The urge… — Edwin Powell Hubble
There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. — Edwin Powell Hubble
Friend, many and many a dream is mere confusion a cobweb of no consequence at all. Two gates for ghostly dreams there are: One gateway… — Homer
My memories pale as I prevail upon them again and again. They become more and more ghostly. I fear nothing so much as losing them… — E L Doctorow
Only through the medium of the public physical world can the mind of one person make a difference to the mind of another. The mind… — Gilbert Ryle
Consider the nematode roundworm, the most abundant of all animals. Four out of five animals on Earth are nematode worms â€” if all solid materials… — E. O. Wilson
Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest object, the most… — W.N.P. Barbellion
When women hear those words, an old, old memory is stirred and brought back to life. The memory is of our absolute, undeniable, and irrevocable… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
For explanations, they did not look in the pages of the visitor's book to see if others likewise found that ghostly happenings abound. — Eric Russell
I feel ghostly unreal until I become somebody else again on the screen. — Peter Sellers
The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again. — Mark Strand

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60 authors contributed a total of 73 Ghostly Quotes, led by these top contributors: