Religion Quote by Søren Kierkegaard

“For leveling really to come about a phantom must first be provided, its spirit, a monstrous abstraction, an all-encompassing something that is nothing, a…

— Kierkegaard, Soren

“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

“We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying what we think, then how little we are…

— Virginia Woolf

Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we…

— Victor Hugo

“If you want someone to tell you what to think," the phantom answered briskly, without looking up, "you will never be short of people…

— Frances Hardinge

“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

“People do not put their faith in phantoms.”

— Marissa Meyer

“Of all the simplifications to which the human spirit naturally inclines, unable to reconcile itself to the complexity of the real, there is none…

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

“We will enter into a new phase in which the Leviathan, so to speak, will become the body formed to make possible the incarnation…

— Julius Evola

“This is most people’s reality: As soon as something is perceived, it is named, interpreted, compared with something else, liked, disliked, or called good…

— Eckhart Tolle

“In a big city you become a ghost; you walk on the crowded streets and realise that you are a kind of transparent entity;…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Was all that we called culture, spirit, soul, all that we called beautiful and sacred, nothing but a ghost long dead, which only a…

— Hesse Hermann