Quotes About Forms

Space is a laboratory, an experiment in all forms of all things, an infinity of possibilities, properties, and places that cry out for investigation and exploration.

O amor, o sono, as drogas e intoxicantes, são formas elementares da arte, ou, antes, de produzir o mesmo efeito que ela.

Love, sleep, drugs and intoxicants are elementary forms of art, or rather, of producing the same effect as art. But love, sleep and drugs all have their disillusion.

One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness.

All Canadians stand together united against any forms of violence, terror against Canadians, and, in fact, against anyone around the world.

I think the forms of terrorism are becoming very diverse, amongst them cyber-terrorism, for example.

Soft-tissue manipulation is no doubt one of the oldest forms of therapy,

To poetry belongs the golden, decisive word. Other arts have accepted nature herself as arbiter, from whom they have borrowed their forms. Music is the orphan whose father and mother no one can determine, and it may well be that precisely in this mystery lies the source of its beauty.

The organic symmetry of forms belongs together; the placement of every leaf, the harmony of shapes speak their message.

Girls were not named for flowers, as flowers died so quickly. Girls were named for deathless things - forms of light, forms of cloud, shapes of stars, that which appears and disappears like an island on the horizon.

Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms. [Carnap's famous plea for tolerance to which W.V. Quine took exception.]

La belleza antigua no basta -dijo-. Antiguos lugares, comportamientos antiguos, dioses antiguos. Actualmente el mundo está lleno de preguntas, y hay formas nuevas de belleza.

Similarities between this and that, between apparently unconnected things, make us clap our hands delightedly when we find them out. It is a sort of national longing for form – or perhaps simply an expression of our deep belief that forms lie hidden within reality; that meaning reveals itself only in flashes. Hence our vulnerability to omens..

Rulers who destroy men's freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. ... They cherish the illusion that they can combine the prerogatives of absolute power with the moral authority that comes from popular assent.

I am well aware of the influence which the nature of a country and its political precedents exercise upon a constitution; and I should regard it as a great misfortune for mankind if liberty were to exist all over the world under the same forms.

Dicen que el dolor adopta muchas formas, incluyendo la ausencia del dolor.

All lost, because one of the galaxy's many life forms saw all the others as resources to be consumed. It was an attitude all life began with. Some grew out of it.

The more unequal your society, the more prevalent all forms of mental illness are. Other social scientists then broke this down to look at depression specifically16—and found the higher the inequality, the higher the depression.

The most convincing artistic forms of our time are inner models of structural vitality and social relevance. They give us confidence that in spite of everything there is still quality to life.

I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.

I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life.

Among all life forms, there are creatures with charisma and creatures without. It's one of those ineffable qualities we can't quite define, but we all seem to respond similarly to.

Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.

Out of our deepest memories come the forgotten forms of the past, given new life by the living sentience of an ancient and eternal forest.