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“The soul's first adventure is the fight between two ideas: the wish to return to earth in a human form, and the desire to feel the freedom of having no form.”

Feels Firsts Humans Two Ideas Soul Earth Form Desire Fighting Wish Adventure Return Human Form

Book:Self-realization Magazine

Source: Self-realization Magazine

“You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together.”

Ideas Together Form Being Together

Author:Arnold Schoenberg

“All the manifest forms of existence are but illusions. They are momentary displays of consciousness, flashes of lightening in the sky. They are there for a moment and then they are gone.”

Moments Form Existence Consciousness Gone Sky Ignorance Illusion Manifest Display Flash Momentary

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Personality is a manifestation of ego. Ego is the central sense of separateness that a person has from the rest of the universe. Personality is the form that that separateness take.”

Persons Form Universe Ignorance Personality Ego Manifestation Separateness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Samsara is the movement of life. And you, an individual self, a form, a moment on a wave, are bound.”

Self Moments Form Individual Movement Ignorance Bounds Wave Samsara

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Our larger body is eternity. Eventually, we return to the source in its undifferentiated form, in its absolute form, which is both form and formlessness, but we exist in that sea all the time.”

Body Form Sea Source Return Eternity Absolutes Reincarnation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As spirits we have always existed in a generalized form, since we are all part of the universe. As individual spirits, we have existed for a timeless time.”

Form Spirit Universe Individual Mysticism Reincarnation Timeless

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The essence of Buddhism is simply that the mind is forever. We are always experiencing different states of mind in one form or another, in one body or another, in one life or another, forever.”

Mind Different States Body Form Forever Buddhism Essence State Of Mind Reincarnation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“On the most usual assumption, the universe is homogeneous on the large scale, i.e. down to regions containing each an appreciable number of nebulae. The homogeneity assumption may then be put in the form: An observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated observer at any time.”

May Moving Form Science Universe Numbers Property Scales Observation Assumption Regions Usual Observers Containing Large Scale Homogeneous Homogeneity Nebula

Author:Hermann Bondi

“In the end we just realize there's no end. It just goes on forever, in countlessly new forms. That's what's wonderful about the universe there's no escape from living. Death doesn't even end it.”

Ends Form Death Universe Realizing Forever Wonderful Goes On

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The universe is pretty cool. You always exist in one form or another. You are a wave and you are changing and moving from one level to another.”

Moving Form Universe Levels Wave Rebirth

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The '60s in London obviously brought about the explosion of music, the Beatles especially, and then the Rolling Stones and other forms of music, and then fashion and photography and films - kitchen-sink dramas we called them at that time, which was our nouvelle vague in Britain, films that talk about real life.”

Real Film Form Fashion Drama Photography Stones London Real Life Kitchen Britain Rolling Vague Explosions Rolling Stones Kitchen Sinks Photography And Film

Author:Charlotte Rampling

“Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.”

Should Art Form Levels Cooking Accepted

Author:Julia Child

“I start with fear. It comes in so many forms. When I write, some of the fear goes away. So I write into the fear, and even more dissipates. I want to be scared while writing. I want to bring it to the surface so I can banish it.”

Want Writing I Can Form Scared Surface

Author:Mat Johnson

“I want to try to come away from that one directional, clear rectangular form. It's not used because it's the most beautiful form; it's just the practical thing. That's why our TVs are rectangles. Even in modern architecture, they want us to believe, "That's the nicest, most beautiful thing." I love modern architecture, but actually it's that they cannot afford amorphous shapes or ornaments.”

Want Trying Believe Beautiful Form Used Clear Modern Tvs Shapes Architecture Practicals Beautiful Things Want U Ornaments Things I Love Modern Architecture Rectangles Practical Things

Author:Pipilotti Rist

“I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.”

Firsts Form First Time Mathematics Drawing Visuals

Author:Agnes Denes

“I made it very clear that I rejected bigotry of all forms.”

Made Form Clear Made It Bigotry Rejected

Author:Steve Scalise

“Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.”

People Form Novel Comedy Mines Intelligent Rate Graphic Graphic Novels

Author:Stephen Fry

“The Israelis are becoming increasingly like the white supremacist South Africans, viewing the Palestinians as a lower form of life, not hesitating to kill a great many of them and justifying this on the grounds that they are being the objects of terrorism, which is true.”

Form White Objects Becoming South Terrorism Great Men Palestinian South Africa

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“If you trust that the people making the show love the source material and the characters, and it's a different medium and there are different requirements for long-form storytelling that will hopefully carry over a number of seasons, then it's exciting.”

People Ifs Long Different Character Shows Form Numbers Materials Source Seasons Exciting Storytelling Mediums Hopefully Requirements

Author:Greg Bryk

“To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.”

Doe Running Form Trouble Objects Suicide Brave Ill Noble Running Away Cowardice Suicidal Nobility

Author:Aristotle

“A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.”

Way Matter Form Pieces Gold Rings Iron Sensible Receiving Impress

Book:The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]

Source: The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]

“Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.”

School Form Artist Talking Magazines Graduates Great Writers Graduate School

Author:Christopher Bollen

“There was something about that form of comedy that's just difficult. It never really felt like you could just fully commit to all the colors that you carry with you.”

Form Felt Difficult Comedy Color Like You Commit

Author:Donal Logue

“Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.”

Form Wealth Poverty Inequality Instability Wealth Inequality

Author:Tavis Smiley

“I was quite straight-laced. I was quite academic until I was about 14 and then I went to boarding school where I had the opportunity to continue to be very academic, but got less interested in it and became more involved in acting. And then when I was applying for universities I used a couple of places on my UCAS form to apply for drama school without telling anyone... but didn't get into drama school. But that was the most rebellious thing I did.”

School Form Used Opportunity Acting Couple Involved Drama University Academic Rebellious

Author:Carey Mulligan

“From the time I was a kid, I had a wanderlust. I always wanted to travel, in any form - plane, train, boat, car, motorcycle. So I think that if I ever do have a mid-life crisis, I have all the toys to refer to quickly.”

Ifs Thinking Kids Wanted Form Car Crisis Train Boat Planes Toys Motorcycle Life Crisis Mid Life Crisis

Author:John Travolta

“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.”

Men Way Mean Different Government Happiness Form Political Happy Inner Peace Different Ways Forms Of Government Great Happiness What Is Happiness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

“Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.”

Form Subjects Scandal Dissection

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.”

May Mean Art Feelings Form Sound Lines Movement Color Expression Activity Oneself Evoke

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.”

Self Form Interest Goodness Forgiving Revenge Resentment Self Interest Anger Resentment

Author:Desmond Tutu

“The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east”

World Character Body Form Water Sea Ocean East Lovely Chains Defined Chiefs Narrative Islands Jewels Gems Caribbean Alluring Bodies Of Water

Book:Caribbean: A Novel

Source: Caribbean: A Novel

“I observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself.”

Thinking Moving Form Law Individuality Absent Absent Friends

Book:The Art of Controversy: And Other Posthumous Papers

Source: The Art of Controversy: And Other Posthumous Papers

“I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself with any other creature; he is not a monkey, not a cow, not a tree. I am a man. But what is it to be that? Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite deity, but I cannot contrast myself with any animal, any plant or any stone. Only a mythical being has a range greater than man's. How then can man form any definite opinions about himself?.”

Knows Men Form Animal Opinion Greater Tree Creatures Stones Infinite Plant Compare Range Cows Contrast Definite Monkeys Deities Splinters

Book:Memories, dreams, reflections

Source: Memories, dreams, reflections

“English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre.”

Play Action Form Absurd Absurdity

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.”

Form Peculiar

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.”

Ifs Lasts Form Work Existence Collapse Incessantly

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.”

Form Belief Wit Aphorism Charming Disbelief

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I'm in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.”

Writing Feelings Form Interest Company Clothes Calm Meals Neglect Stable

Author:Bertolt Brecht

“Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.”

Form Artist Theory Significant

Book:Complete Essays: 1920-1925

Source: Complete Essays: 1920-1925

“Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.”

Art Form Actors Emotion Emotional Art Is Abuse Dramatic Masturbation Cathartic Acting From Actors

Book:Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

“Enemies carry a report in form different from the original.”

Different Form Enemy Originals Reports Rumor

Author:Plautus

“For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.”

Men Doe Form Enemy Everlasting Scandal Slander

Book:The Comedies of Plautus

Source: The Comedies of Plautus

“The mind is matter in solution and matter is mind in form.”

Mind Matter Form Solutions

Author:Phineas Quimby

“The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man.”

Men Firsts Form Interest Policy Importance Hobbies Cultivation

Book:A Man of Destiny: Winston S. Churchill

Source: A Man of Destiny: Winston S. Churchill

“As picture teaches the colouring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.”

Form Teach Sculpture Anatomy

Book:Twelve Essays

Source: Twelve Essays

“Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned and the unlearned, and, as it were, throw a bridge between those two great divisions of the public.”

People Two Form Communication Journalism Bridges Division

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and amidst assemblies, turning the eye of the the mind upwards, can form an artificial solitude; retired amidst a crowd, calm amidst distraction, and wise amidst folly.”

Men Mind May Art Eye Form Hours Walks Wise Meditation Genius Solitude Tables Calm Crowds Folly Distraction Artificial Retired Assembly

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, then it is science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively, then it is art.”

Ifs Mind Art Form Language Conscious Connections Logic Conscious Mind Volition

Author:Albert Einstein

“O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and fear in other men?”

Men Art Soul Shows Form Degrees Creating Awe Show Me Ceremony Adoration

Book:King Henry V: Third Series

Source: King Henry V: Third Series

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