Quotes of: Life-forms Keyword

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

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

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

The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming.

Mastery

Have a look around, my pretty, we are surrounded by Death in all forms – just the two of us are still alive –

Nightmarish Sacrifice

But the body had its own cultural forms. It had its own art. Executions were its tragedies, pornography was its romance.

Oryx and Crake

I prefer love songs to any other form of torture.

Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word "servant".

Lion of Babylon

Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— We murder to dissect.

Lyrical Ballads

There are many forms of tyrants, but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people in the name of freedom.

Lord of the Rings: Apocalyptic Prophecies

I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture those experiences.

Liquid Me: A Collection of Poetry and Prose

Love takes many forms, and none of them are shaped like people I don’t know.

Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

You were created, fashioned and designed in a special form to leave in the world something that did not exist before you were born!

Leaders' Watchwords