Forms Quotes

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One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology deals with that… — Charles Lapworth
Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put my finger in… — Philip Pullman
The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the… — Louis Pasteur
I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion with my previous… — Henri Poincare
Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color. — Alexander Eliot
When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency. — Samuel Johnson
My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men. — Sandra Cisneros
Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself. Just… — Andrej Pejic
Forms and rituals do not produce worship, nor does the disuse of forms and rituals. We can use all the right techniques and methods, we… — Richard J. Foster
Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that… — Charles Horton Cooley
Education forms the common mind. — Alexander Pope
Violence against women is learned. Each of us must examine - and change - the way in which our own behavior might contribute to, enable,… — Patrick Stewart
First examine what is constantly there in your mind, what is being repeated again and again. You don't have many thoughts. If you examine minutely… — Rajneesh
One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no… — Erich Fromm
One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity… — Bertrand Russell
It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all evil ... which… — Elizabeth Blackwell
Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a… — Roy Lichtenstein
Colored planes, by their position and size as well as by their value, express only relationships, not forms. — Piet Mondrian

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