Biographies Quote by Pierre-Simon Laplace

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

— Antonio Porchia

His last words, according to De Morgan: Man follows only phantoms.

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We have dedicated…

— Rick Yancey

I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.

— Sophocles

Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.

— Luigi Pirandello

You feared of phantoms and none exist but you. You still saw fit to destroy it.

— All That Remains

You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in reality to…

— Cornell Woolrich

“They reminded me that it was my fate to pursue only phantoms, creatures whose reality existed to a great extent in my imagination; for…

— Marcel Proust

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

— Jane Hamilton

Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.

— Loren Eiseley

The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.

— David Mitchell

“In order than everything should be reduced to the same level, it is first of all necessary to procure a phantom, its spirit, a…

— Søren Kierkegaard