Quotes of: Art-form Keyword

When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn't even discovered yet.

Ron Eglash

You can love a song, but you can form a bond with an album, a relationship that evolves as organically and beautifully as a marriage.

100 Greatest Albums

The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell.

1Q84

For you need imagination to form a notion of beauty at all, and still more to discover your ideal in an unfamiliar shape.

Amy Foster

Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any notion we may have formed respecting their origin or inmost nature.

Auguste Comte And Positivism

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

Atlas Shrugged

They say the first of my kind was Alasdair, a human raised by hawks. She learned the languages of birds and was gifted with their form.

Hawksong

Look ... first and foremost, I'm a scientist. That means it's my responsibility to make observations and gather evidence before forming a hypothesis, not vice versa.

Hex

I want to create a seventeen-syllable word that encompasses the human condition, and then use that word to form the world’s most perfect haiku.

I Want

People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit.

Killosophy

Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight.

Killosophy

Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form.

Sufi Thought and Action

Why is edamame always ready to expire? It´s so urgent for a vegetable. Edamame. It sounds like an assisted form of suicide. Is there an advertising concept in this?

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

The serial murderer often seeks the very form of capital punishment that is being held over his head as a deterrent.

Serial Killers

Freedom is the most sophisticated form of control. The best lies use the truth.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

The Screwtape Letters

The most effective form of creation is an act of cooperation, not force.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

The most dangerous negativity comes from ourselves in the form of doubts, fears and unreasonable self-criticisms.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

The unseen essential can be described in many ways and comes in many forms, but is always preceded by virtue.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.

Myself with Others: Selected Essays

Adventures, I reflected, are all very fine but a certain amount of civilised comfort forms the true kernel of our desires.

Morlock Night