Ghostly Quotes
73 quotes by 60 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Ghostly things don't really scare me, but they really intrigue me.
— Sophie Turner
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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
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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
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There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.
— Edwin Powell Hubble
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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
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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
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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
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Consider the nematode roundworm, the most abundant of all animals. Four out of five animals on Earth are nematode worms — if all solid materials…
— E. O. Wilson
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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
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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
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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
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I feel ghostly unreal until I become somebody else again on the screen.
— Peter Sellers
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The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again.
— Mark Strand
Who Wrote These Ghostly Quotes
60 authors contributed a total of 73 Ghostly Quotes, led by these top contributors: