Forms Quotes

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We were not meant to mask ourselves before our fellow-beings, but to be, through our human forms, true and clear utterances of the spirit within.… — Lucy Larcom
This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out of profusion, Afraid… — Amy Lowell
If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man… — William Jennings Bryan
The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as… — Charles Horton Cooley
The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by… — Walter Pater
Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the… — Anton Chekhov
The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able to tolerate the… — Cyril Connolly
I believe that both art and the human striving for cognitive comprehension are manifest forms of the grand game in which nothing more is stipulated… — Konrad Lorenz
Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw… — Lewis Mumford
Any test that turns on what is offensive to the communitys standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to be… — William O. Douglas
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied. — Susan Sontag
In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of the humiliation… — Barbara Ehrenreich
And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is… — Mark Strand
Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the mind… — Susan Sontag
I, who have been so many men in vain, want to be one man, myself alone. From out of a whirlwind the voice of God… — Jorge Luis Borges
Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for… — Alfred de Vigny
It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much to be desired. The leg… — Alice Meynell
The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his… — Hermann Ebbinghaus
Death is the mother of forms. — Octavio Paz
All created forms are fractal, as is their purpose, use, and allotted time for existence. — Guy Finley

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