We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.
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Balzac's Garret, p. 88Lewis H. Lapham
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Surge. God, wishing to show that He could form a people holy with an invisible holiness, and fill them with an eternal glory, made visible things. As nature is an image of grace, He has done in the bounties of nature what He would do in those of grace, in order that we might judge that He could make the invisible, since He made the visible excellently. 642
Blaise Pascal
Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream.
Lewis H. Lapham
For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible. 674
Blaise Pascal
Mime makes the invisible, visible and the visible, invisible.
Marcel Marceau
It makes no sense to expect or claim to ‘make the invisible visible’, or the unknown known, or the unthinkable thinkable. We can draw conclusions about the invisible; we can postulate its existence with relative certainty. But all we can represent is an analogy, which stands for the invisible but is not it.
Gerhard Richter
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