579 Quotes About Appearance








  • Author Laura Riding
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    What is beheld through glass seems glass.The quality of what I amEncases what I am not,Smoothes the strange world.I perceive it slowly,In my time,In my material,As my pride,As my possession:The vision is love.When life crashes like a cracked pane,Still shall I loveEven the strange dead as the living once.Death also sees, though distantly,And I must trust then as nowA prism — of another kind,Through which one may not put one's hands or touch.

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  • Author Martin Heidegger
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    It is phenomenologically absurd to speak of the phenomenon as if it were something behind which there would be something else of which it would be a phenomenon in the sense of the appearance which represents and expresses [this something else]. A phenomenon is nothing behind which there would be something else. More accurately stated, one cannot ask for something behind the phenomenon at all, since what the phenomenon gives is precisely that something in itself.

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