Quotes About Forms

I suspect that we get used to particular sorts of stories being presented in particular sorts of ways, and we're so used to interpreting them and understanding what it is they're doing that we think of those forms and styles as faithful, complete depictions of reality.

I am not against it. But I am suspicious of all forms of New Age spirituality, and religion in general.

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.

Les formes paraissaient étranges parce qu'elles étaient inconnues.

Although most early Christian prophecy was oral, not written, John had plenty of models for a written prophecy, both in the prophetic books of the Hebrew scriptures and in the later Jewish apocalypses. In its literary forms what he writes is indebted to both kinds of model.

Alas! can we think that the reformation is wrought, when we cast out a few ceremonies, and changed some vestures, and gestures, and forms! Oh no, sirs'! it is the converting and saving of souls that is our business. That is the chiefest part of reformation, that doth most good, and tendeth most to the salvation of the people.

Religion is best when it points beyond itself, like Isaiah or John the Baptist. It is worst when it gives you just enough of the forms to inoculate you against the substance, when it substitutes rituals for reality, the container for the contents, the wineskins for the ecstatic wine.

Everything you have ever seen with your eyes is the self-emptying of God into multitudinous physical and visible forms. In other words, Infinity is forever limiting itself into finite expressions, and this could even be called the "suffering" of God. The Christ learned this self-emptying, or kenosis , 183 from his eternal life in the Trinity. It is not just Jesus who suffers, but the cross is the visible symbol of what is always going on inside of God!

I'm not good with children, the god confessed. Or people. Well, any organic life forms, really.

but it seemed to her that the lack of critical newspapers made it much easier for other forms of oppression to flourish.

The state or global forms of power that seek to protect populations considered in danger may well extend their own power through those acts of protection.

The architectural profession has struggled to develop forms of environmental accounting that can guide the design process without overly burdening or complicating it.

Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.

The sounding cataractHaunted me like a passion: the tall rock,The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood,Their colors and their forms, were then to meAn appetite; a feeling and a love,That had no need of a remoter charm,By thought supplied, nor any interestUnborrowed from the eye.

The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.

How Nature by extrinsic passion first / Peopled my mind with beauteous forms or grand' (Book I.)

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

Yes, it is indeed by way of the mathematical forms that the physicist gains knowledge of the external world; Eddington's point, however, is that the forms in question have been artificially imposed: "The mathematics is not there until we put it there." And it is for this reason, and in this sense, that our knowledge of mathematical structures—our knowledge of the physical world!—is said to be subjective.

Hitch era un lento stomaco antropomorfo. Il sarcasmo era acido cloridrico, l'immaginazione un gioco di enzimi, Hitch digeriva le forme di vita circostanti, proteine e vitamine per il corpus delle sue opere.

life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, overpowering of the strange and weaker, suppression, severity, imposition of one's own forms, incorporation and, at the least and mildest, exploitation.

Prejudice is a shape shifter. It's very agile in taking forms that seem acceptable on the surface.

I am truly not an axiologist, but I am concerned about the value of life in all of its forms and shapes.

Angels are not merely forms of extraterrestrial intelligence. They are forms of extra-cosmic intelligence.

Structures of lines, surfaces, forms, colours. They try to approach the eternal, the inexpressible above men. They are a denial of human egotism. They are the hatred of human immodesty, the hatred of images, of paintings... Wisdom (is) the feeling for the coming reality, the mystical, the definite indefinite, the greatest definite.