The mathematics is not there till we put it there. Arthur Eddington
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. Eric Hoffer
The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it. Gertrude Stein
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. C. S. Lewis
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there. Tom Stoppard
The reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there. Joseph Stiglitz