Impalpable Quotes

Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of while the visible and dense matter remains as it was. - W Stanley Jevons

Today, economic value is best symbolized by exceedingly complex, miniaturized integrated circuits and the ideas -- the software -- that utilize them... Most of what we currently perceive as value and wealth is intellectual and impalpable. - Alan Greenspan

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious. - Charles Munch

I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card. - Charles Baudelaire