Quotes of: Life-forms Keyword

Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped and held by a book, reading does not feel like ...

My Life in Middlemarch

If I had my life to live over again, I would form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is not another practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ...

Memento mori

To enter into the realm of contemplation, one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance into a higher life. It is a death for the sake of life, which leaves behind all that we can know or treasure as life, as thought, as exp...

New Seeds of Contemplation

What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. The meaning of life is to be found in passion—romantic passion, religious passion, passion for work...

Spirituality for the Skeptic: The Thoughtful Love of Life

Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.

Karen DeCrow

Life’s most rewarding forms of being: Being patient, and, being yourself.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The simplified form of life is your Master, follow him without hesitation.

sir kristian goldmund aumann

But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.

Alfred Russel Wallace

There's a reason why bullying takes such a strong form online. People don't have to push back as much as they would in real life.

Bridgit Mendler

You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.

Constantine Karamanlis

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

Geoffrey Beene

I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.

Jonathan Frakes

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

Mikhail Gorbachev

In whatever form it takes, life sings because it has a song. The meaning is in the lyrics.

Robert Lanza

Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.

Oliver Joseph Lodge

When man comes to the realization that he is not the "favorite" of God; that he was not specially created, that the universe was not made for his benefit, and that he is subject to the same laws of nature as all other forms of life, then, and not unt...

An Atheist Manifesto

A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security and direction; he can take care of himself, for he is the inventor not only of laws, theories, pictures, plays, forms of music,...

Science in a Free Society

What The Mysteries of Udolpho suggests is how a novel, by presenting phenomena before it present resolutions, can create an on-going, perhaps spurious, but nevertheless compelling dynamic between details which can undermine the ability of form to imp...

Reading The Victorian Novel: Detail Into Form

[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the div...

Joseph Campbell

Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.

Ken Hill

My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'

Oscar Niemeyer