Form Quotes
8782 quotes by 4671 authors
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All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is,…
— Isaiah Berlin
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives…
— Carl Bernstein
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If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than…
— Mortimer Adler
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The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the illumination of true knowledge,…
— Annie Besant
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Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an outer…
— Annie Besant
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Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.
— Annie Besant
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In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the fact that what…
— Annie Besant
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All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die…
— Annie Besant
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Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being less…
— Annie Besant
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Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part of the Old Testament. A…
— Annie Besant
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Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of Earth the only forms in…
— Annie Besant
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The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not be were God…
— Annie Besant
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The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in the womb of the mother,…
— Annie Besant
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What is the constitution of the universe? The universe is the manifestation of the divine thought; the thought of God embodies itself in the thought-forms…
— Annie Besant
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Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included...…
— Joseph Beuys
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I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
— Aneurin Bevan
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The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to…
— Jeff Bezos
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Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
— Ambrose Bierce
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of…
— Ambrose Bierce
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