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“In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had she paints, or clay, or knew the discipline of the dance, or strings, had she anything to engage her tremendous curiosity and her gift for metaphor, she might have exchanged the restlessness and preoccupation with whim for an activity that provided her with all she yearned for. And like an artist with no art form, she became dangerous.”

“One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians.”

Mind Form Bears Politician Activity Eating Expansion

Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

“There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that - perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims.”

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

“Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own, and this took the form of musical hallucinations, mostly musical memories from her earlier life. The brain needed to stay incessantly active, and if it was not getting its usual stimulation..., it would create its own stimulation in the form of hallucinations.”

Ifs Form Given Memories Brain Needed Activity Musical Active Usual Spontaneous Deprived Input Hallucinations Stimulation Incessantly Deafness Auditory

Book:Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

Source: Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

“A wise man once said that all human activity is a form of play. And the highest form of play is the search for Truth, Beauty and Love. What more is needed? Should there be a ‘meaning’ as well, that will be a bonus? If we waste time looking for life’s meaning, we may have no time to live — or to play.”

Ifs Men Should Humans Wells May Said Play Form Wise Needed Activity Waste Highest And Love Wasting Time Wise Man Once Said Bonus Human Activity Search For Truth Beauty And Love

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the former is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the fruit comes, the blossom may be explained to be a false form of the plant's existence, for the fruit appears as its true nature in place of the blossom.”

Way May Whole Moments Might Form Existence Break Stage Activity Plant Unity Fruit Disappear Former Latter Inherent Bud True Nature Break Through

Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel