Quotes of: Formative Keyword

With its fluctuating forms and needless decoration, fashion epitomizes the supposedly unproductive waste that inspired 20th-century technocrats to dream of central planning. It exists for no good reason. But that's practically a definition of art.

Virginia Postrel

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.

Wole Soyinka

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

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

Rooftop Soliloquy

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

It is the story that matters not just the ending.

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

Mathematics is the art of explanation.

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

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

Morlock Night

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.

Metaphysics: Concept and Problems