Abandoned Quote by Immanuel Kant

“The Romantic movement among other things was concerned to bring back into permitted human experience occasions when the 'invisible but real world' was of…

— Peter Redgrove

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“He felt there had to be ‘something’. He felt human beings must create, each in their own way, and that it was only by…

— Ben Okri

“Modernist literature with all its vast apparatus was an instrument, a form of perception, and once absorbed, the insights it brought could be rejected…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“The only lightless dark is the night of ignorance and insensibility. We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but…

— Helen Keller

“Where he saw a page of words, his friend saw the field of hesitations, black holes, and possibilities between the words. Where his friend…

— Nicole Krauss

Did men but consider that the sun, moon, and stars, and every other object of the senses, are only so many sensations in their…

— George Berkeley

The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood…

— Anita Shreve

To view an object in the proper light we must stand away from it. The study of the classical literatures gives the aloofness which…

— John Lancaster Spalding

“For it is through the darkness of the evening that we are able to see the stars. Without this darkness, we would never get…

— Jennifer Sodini

“There was nothing to see; the mist that hung in the air made everything invisible that was more than a short distance away.”

— Diane Setterfield