Ghost Quotes (2)
Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows and solidities are easily confounded. The Vital Principle is an entity of this ghostly kind; and although the daylight has dissipated it, and positive Biology is no longer vexed with its visitations, it nevertheless reappears in another shape in the shadowy region of mystery which surrounds biological and all other questions.
The History of Philosophy from Thales to Comte (1867), lxxxiv.
See also: | Biology (42) | Daylight (2) | Metaphysics (12) | Mystery (27) | Principle (31) | Question (45) | Shadow (5)
New ideas seem like frightening ghosts to people at the beginning; they run away from them for a long time, but they get tired of it in the end!
From the play Galileo Galilei (2001) .
See also: | Beginning (11) | End (5) | Fear (24) | Idea (83) | Innovation (15) | Run (2) | Tired (2)
