“Such physical matters were nice, yet, to him, intelligence and passion born of living, the ability to move and be moved by subtleties of the mind and spirit, were what really counted.”

“Huge and mighty forms, that do not live
Like living men, moved slowly through the mind
By day, and were a trouble to my dreams.”

William Wordsworth book The Prelude

“Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.”

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881–1955) French philosopher and Jesuit priest

“Long before physics or psychology were born, pain disintegrated matter, and affliction the soul.”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

“When you know that everything matters—that every move counts as much as any other—you will begin living a life of permanent purpose.”

Andy Andrews (1959) author and corporate speaker

“I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There's no doubt of it in my mind.”

Bobby Fischer (1943–2008) American chess prodigy, chess player, and chess writer

“It was like Percy had faced death before, like he knew about grief. What mattered was listening. You didn’t need to say you were sorry. The only thing that helped was moving on—moving forward.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

“The infinite and uncreated spirit that we usually call GOD, a substance of the highest virtue and excellency, produced everything else by emanative causality. God thus is the primary substance, the rest, the secondary; if the former created matter with a power of moving itself, he, the primary substance, is still the cause of that motion as well as of the matter, and yet we rightly say that it is matter which moves itself. "We may define this kind of spirit we speak of to be a substance indiscernible, that can move itself, that can penetrate, contract, and dilate itself, and can also penetrate, move, and alter matter," which is the third emanation.”

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky book Isis Unveiled

“Moving stranger,
Does it really matter,
As long as you're not afraid to feel?”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

“Did I feel a physical desire for him? I did. Was I moved by a passion of my body? I was. Have I experienced the most violent form of sensual pleasure? I have.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged