Forms Quotes
2237 quotes by 1601 authors
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Adam and Eve and all forms of life, both animal and plant, were created in immortality; that is, when first placed on this earth, all…
— Bruce R. McConkie
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A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on their backs, and…
— Hilary Mantel
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All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is that the departing…
— Alexander Herzen
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In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.
— John Lothrop Motley
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Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason, may be…
— Ann Radcliffe
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I am not against all forms of high-tech medicine. Drugs and surgeries have a secure place in the treatment of serious health conditions. But modern…
— Andrew Weil
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Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There…
— Banksy
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Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a…
— Mircea Eliade
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Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and…
— Eliphas Levi
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You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will be…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Common integration is only the memory of differentiation... The different artifices by which integration is effected, are changes, not from the known to the unknown,…
— Augustus De Morgan
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On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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"Cynicism," like "heresy" and "heterodoxy" and "atheism" and "agnosticism" and "paganism" and "heathenism," is above all else a way for organized orthodoxy's caste of official…
— Kenny Smith
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The anorexic is the fuse nakedly exposed to the direct power of modern media, a psyche whose wiring has no insulation. The anorexic is an…
— Kenny Smith
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Modern value-neutral society (Gesellschaft rather than Gemeinschaft) is systematized predation tempered not by conscience or values but rather merely by a system of law, which…
— Kenny Smith
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Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very few factual observations,…
— John Desmond Bernal
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The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in my opinion the best method of defining the finite irrational…
— Georg Cantor
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The case against vivisection is the same as that against war and all other forms of cruelty - that violence does not produce long-term solutions.
— Jon Wynne-Tyson
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