Immaterial Quotes
63 quotes by 58 authors
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I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
— Lord Byron
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[Fritz Haber's] greatness lies in his scientific ideas and in the depth of his searching. The thought, the plan, and the process are more important…
— Richard Willstatter
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Physical beauty and ugliness is not very important. The real thing is the inner. I can teach you how to be beautiful from within, and…
— Rajneesh
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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is…
— Maya Angelou
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To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we…
— Alan Moore
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When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting.
— Max Beckmann
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I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.
— Toyo Ito
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We have sacrificed the old immaterial gods, and now we are occupying the temple of the Market-God. He organizes our economy, our politics, our habits,…
— Jose Mujica
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All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have…
— John Berger
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The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.
— Victor Hugo
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A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man and animals. But…
— Paul Bloom
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Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.
— Fernando Botero
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When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device…
— Nikola Tesla
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When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to…
— Graham Swift
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It from Bit symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom an immaterial source and explanation... that all things physical…
— John Archibald Wheeler
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All we know if an angel is that it is incorporeal, immaterial, and only by comparing it with God-who is incomparable-can we see that it…
— John of Damascus
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The soul is the ego, the ‘I,’ or the self, and it contains our consciousness. It also animates our body. That’s why when the soul…
— J.P. Moreland
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It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why…
— Helmut Jahn
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We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling,…
— Alain de Botton
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