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“I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.”

Way Different Form Elements Understood Unexpected Repetition Discarded

Author:Graham Nelson

“Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the true idea it contains, art has become almost uniquely feminine. Beauty is woman, and also art is woman.”

Art Ideas Form Beauty Expression Materials Elements Understood Art Is Feminine Feminine Beauty Women Beauty

Author:Remy de Gourmont

“When the spirit is understood, then life becomes not at all common, but a constant magical circus in which you see yourself reflected in all forms and all formlessness.”

Form Spirit Common Enlightenment Understood Constant Circus

Author:Frederick Lenz

“An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to admitting the true in an unusual form; whilst any novelty, however fantastic, however false, is greedily swallowed.”

Men Mind Has Beens Form Half Understood Originals Fantastic Unusual Dozen Novelty Admitting

Book:Lectures on Art, and Poems

Source: Lectures on Art, and Poems

“In alchemical treatises, the formula L'Oeuvre au Noir ... designates what is said to be the most difficult phase of the alchemist's process, the separation and dissolution of substance. It is still not clear whether the term applied to daring experiments on matter itself, or whether it was understood to symbolize trials of the mind in discarding all forms of routine and prejudice. Doubtless it signified one or the other meaning alternately, or perhaps both at the same time.”

Mind Said Stills Matter Form Process Difficult Term Clear Understood Prejudice Separation Trials Experiments Substance Routine Formulas Daring Phases Alchemist Noir Dissolution

Author:Marguerite Yourcenar

“When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.”

Knows Life Facts Form Speak Understanding Understood Surface Fragile Referring Misunderstood Genius

Book:The Theater and Its Double

Source: The Theater and Its Double

“Any form of corporal punishment or 'spanking' is a violent attack upon another human being's integrity. The effect remains with the victim forever and becomes an unforgiving part of his or hier personality--a massive frustration resulting in a hostility which will seek expression in later life in violent acts towards others. The sooner we understand that love and gentleness are the only kinds of called-far behavior towards children, the better. The child, especially, learns to become the kind of human being that he or she has experienced. This should be fully understood by all caregivers.”

“Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.”

Mind Stills Ideas Soul Beautiful Form Values Beauty Cases Shapes Understood Perfection Shining Mere Admire Shells Pearls Covering Loveliness Shining Through

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“To resume, in a few words, the system of the Imperial government, as it was instituted by Augustus, and maintained by those princes who understood their own interest and that of the people, it may be defined an absolute monarchy disguised by the forms of a commonwealth. The masters of the Roman world surrounded their throne with darkness, concealed their irresistible strength, and humbly professed themselves the accountable ministers of the senate, whose supreme decrees they dictated and obeyed.”

Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

“Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to speak Greek--Baubo?... Oh, those Greeks! They understood how to live: to do that it is necessary to stop bravely at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore the appearance, to believe in forms, in tones, in words, in the whole Olympus of appearance! Those Greeks were superficial--out of profundity!”

Believe Reason Whole Truth Form Names Speak Understood Skins Appearance Surface Greek Tone Superficial Adore Folds Profundity Olympus

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either ourselves or others about understanding is by assuming something as familiar, and accepting it on that account; with all its pros and cons, such knowing never gets anywhere, and it knows not why.... The analysis of an idea, as it used to be carried out, was, in fact, nothing else than ridding it of the form in which it had become familiar.”

Thinking Knows Way Ideas Facts Form Used Understanding Accepting Knowing Understood Accounts Assuming Familiar Used To Be Analysis Thoughtful Deceiving Pros And Cons

Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Plato--who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed only to "real" people and everyday events--knew what intellectual experience made for true humanity. He suggested that the future citizens of his ideal republic begin their literary education with the telling of myths, rather than with mere facts or so-called rational teachings.”

Source: The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales

“Understanding is the least important thing when it comes to digging jazzbecause, like anything else, jazz is a form of entertainment. It is created to be enjoyed, not understood like you read a blueprint.”

Important Form Understanding Like You Understood Important Things Jazz Entertainment Enjoyed Digging Blueprints

Author:Cannonball Adderley

“I've always loved animation it's the reason why I do what I do for a living - the films of Walt Disney. This art form is so spectacular and beautiful. And I never quite understood the feeling amongst animation studios that audiences today only wanted to see computer animation. It's never about the medium that a film is made in, it's about the story. It's about how good the movie is.”

Art Made Reason Stories Feelings Today Wanted Beautiful Film Form Audience Computer Understood Studios Mediums Reason Why Never Quit Animation Spectacular Walt Computer Animation

Author:John Lasseter

“Animation, for me, is a wonderful art form. I never understood why the studios wanted to stop making animation. Maybe they felt that the audiences around the world only wanted to watch computer animation. I didn't understand that, because I don't think ever in the history of cinema did the medium of a film make that film entertaining or not. What I've always felt is, what audiences like to watch are really good movies.”

“The Chinese word Li may therefore be understood as organic order, as distinct from mechanical or legal order, both of which go by the book. Li is the asymmetrical, nonrepetitive, and unregimented order which we find in the patterns of moving water, the form of trees and clouds, of frost crystals on the window, or the scattering of pebbles on beach sand.”

May Book Moving Form Order Water Tree Understood Window Clouds Patterns Chinese Beach Sand Crystals Frost Pebbles Moving Water

Book:Tao: The Watercourse Way

Source: Tao: The Watercourse Way

“That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now, is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed, and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all, to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.”

Should Has Beens Government Form Felt Support Successful Periods Understood Should Have Originals Experiments Establishment Should Have Been Props Undecided

Book:The Portable Abraham Lincoln

Source: The Portable Abraham Lincoln

“Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of art. The necessary elements of style are lucidity, elegance, and individuality; these three qualities combine to form a preservative which ensures the nearest approximation to permanence in the fugitive art of letters.”

Art Form Three Quality Style Elements Understood Letters Essence Structure Individuality Works Of Art Elegance Seductive Permanence Decoration Fugitive Approximation Lucidity

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“But you know, I'm very conscious that people criticize Hollywood. Yet we've created a form, the Western, that can be understood in every country. The good guys against the bad guys. No nuances. And the horse is the best vehicle of action in our medium. You take action, a scene, and scenery, and cut them together, and you never miss.”

People Knows Country Action Together Form Guy Cutting Missing Scene Conscious Understood Hollywood Horse Western Mediums Criticize Vehicle Bad Guys Good Guy Nuance Scenery

Author:John Wayne

“God's Word is not presented in Scripture in the form of a theological system, but it admits of being stated in that form, and, indeed, requires to be so stated before we can properly grasp it - grasp it, that is, as a whole. Every text has its immediate context in the passage from which it comes, its broader context in the book to which it belongs, and its ultimate context in the Bible as a whole; and it needs to be rightly related to each of these contexts if its character, scope and significance is to be adequately understood.”

Ifs Needs Book Whole Character Form Understood Ultimate Scripture Related Significance Passages Scope Theological

Author:J. I. Packer

“Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.”

People Form Fiction Millions Understood Divorced

Author:Terence McKenna

“Death can be understood as the passage from one form to another, from a limited degree of life to another higher, freer one. It is wrong to assume that everything ends with death; what ends is only the temporary conditions in which people have lived on earth.”

People Ends Earth Form Conditions Higher Degrees Understood Assuming Temporary Passages

Author:Peter Deunov

“The more personal you are willing to be and the more intimate you are willing to be about the details of your own life, the more universal you are. Everybody needs to be understood. And out of that comes every form of love.”

Needs Form Willing Understood Universal Details Intimate Forms Of Love

Author:Sherwin B. Nuland

“Love is a chemical reaction, but it cannot be fully understood or defined by science. And though a body cannot exist without a soul, it too cannot be fully understood or defined by science. Love is the most powerful form of energy, but science cannot decipher its elements. Yet the best cure for a sick soul is love, but even the most advanced physician cannot prescribe it as medicine.”

Soul Body Form Energy Love Is Powerful Elements Understood Sick Medicine Reactions Cures Defined Most Powerful Chemicals Physicians Competence Decipher Chemical Reactions Science Love

Author:Suzy Kassem

“People are so... seem so chaotic internally, but being filtered through some form, like making a record, sort of filters it down into something that can be understood.”

People Seems Form Records Understood Chaotic Filters

Author:Elliott Smith

“But, as Douglas E Harding has pointed out, we tend to think of this planet as a life-infested rock, which is as absurd as thinking of the human body as a cell infested skeleton. Surely all forms of life, including man, must be understood as "symptoms" of the earth, the solar system, and the galaxy in which case we cannot escape the conclusion that the galaxy is intelligent.”

Thinking Men Humans Body Earth Form Cases Rocks Planets Understood Intelligent Including Absurd Conclusion Cells Symptoms Galaxy Human Body Skeletons Solar System Harding

Author:Alan Watts

“I've always been a fan of comedy, and I understood from a young age that what makes most comedy work is the immediacy of first person experience. I'd spent a lot of time from 1995-1998 focusing almost exclusively on poetry, and it's an incredibly difficult form in which to achieve a sustained comic tone unless you're Alexander Pope.”

Firsts Persons Age Form Young Difficult Comedy Fans Achieve Understood Comic Tone Pope Young Age First Person Immediacy

Author:Kevin Keck

“That's just the way people's brains work. If you want to talk about something, you have to reduce it to a form that can be understood. That's one of the reasons I'm not good about boiling down music.”

People Ifs Way Want Reason Form Brain Understood Boiling

Author:John Dieterich

“I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that were safe to hold what I felt.”

World Writing Made Matter Form Language Felt Safe Understood Poetry Is Paradigm Writing Poetry

Author:Grace Cavalieri

“When yoga is understood in its totality, it is neither a form of exercise, nor is it an esoteric philosophy or religion; it is a practical and comprehensive science for realizing life's ultimate aims.”

Philosophy Form Realizing Exercise Understood Yoga Ultimate Aim Practicals Comprehensive Totality Esoteric

Author:Rod Stryker

“Fashion is also a form of art, and like every kind of art, it has its own way of expression. In other words, if a dress looks better on a thin girl, on a catwalk, during a very specific moment of time and space then it's represented as part of a "fashion Show". It is after all a "Show" and it has to be understood by people that it is a "show" and not real life.”

People Ifs Way Looks Kind Art Real Moments Shows Form Girl Space Fashion Expression Understood Dresses Real Life Time And Space Fashion Show Catwalk

Author:Sonia Rykiel

“If you start with the idea that you are going to be writing about a night in a graveyard, and that there are only a few living people in that frame, all sorts of interesting and difficult technical problems arise. And then form - new form, or experimental form - might be understood as just trying to tell that story most movingly and efficiently.”

People Ifs Writing Trying Ideas Stories Problem Might Form Night Difficult Interesting Understood Arise Graveyard

Author:George Saunders

“Neoliberalism has taken new forms since the demise of the Fordist concept of labor and with the emergence of what is understood as flexible labor. This has really come to be the dominant form for about the last 20 years.”

Years Lasts Form Taken Understood Concepts Labor Dominant Flexible Emergence Demise Neoliberalism

Author:Judith Butler

“I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.”

Thinking Form Used Honest Honesty Understood Presses Used To Be

Author:Shia LaBeouf

“The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.”

Art Might Form Lying Felt Understood Argument Inaccessible

Book:What Is Art?

Source: What Is Art?

“But guilt is guilt. It doesn't go away. It can't be nullified. It can't even be fully understood, I'm certain - it's roots run too deep into private and long-standing karma. About the only thing that saves my neck when I get to feeling this way is that guilt is an imperfect form of knowledge. Just because it isn't perfect doesn't mean that it can't be used. The hard thing to do is to put it to practical use, before it gets around to paralyzing you.”

Way Mean Long Hard Use Feelings Running Form Used Certain Perfect Understood Standing Roots Guilt Karma Practicals Things To Do Necks Going Away Imperfect Hard Things Too Deep

Author:J. D. Salinger

“It is very frustrating not to be understood in this world. If you say one thing and keep being told that you mean something else, it can make you want to scream. But somewhere in the world there is a place for all of us, whether you are an electric form of decoration, peppermint-scented sweet, a source of timber, or a potato pancake.”

Ifs World Want Mean Form One Thing This World Sweet Source Understood Scream Electric Frustrating Potatoes Decoration Pancakes Timber Peppermint

Author:Daniel Handler

“God, he suddenly understood, was love in its purest form, and in these last months with his children, he had felt His touch as surely as he had heard the music spilling from Ronnie's hands.”

Children Hands Lasts Form Felt Heard Months Understood Spilling

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Brigan," she said, annoyed that he had not understood. "I’ll always be beautiful. Look at me. I have one hundred and sixty two bug bites, and has it made me any less beautiful? I’m missing two fingers and I have scars all over, but does anyone care? No! It just makes me more interesting! I’ll always be like this, stuck in this beautiful form, and you’ll have to deal with it." He seemed to sense that she expected a grave response, but for the moment, he was incapable. "I suppose it’s a burden I must bear," he said, grinning.”

Source: Fire

“Often the deep valleys of our PRESENT will be UNDERSTOOD only by LOOKING BACK on them from the mountains of our FUTURE experience. Often we can’t see the LORD’S HAND in our lives until long after the trials have passed. Often the most difficult times of our lives are ESSENTIAL building blocks that form the FOUNDATION of our CHARACTER and pave the way to FUTURE opportunity, understanding, and happiness.”

“I finally understood that by being on a perpetual diet, I had practiced a "disordered" form of eating my whole life. I restricted when I was hungry and in need of nutrition and binged when I was so grotesquely full I couldn't be comfortable in any position by lying down. Diets that tell people what to eat or when to eat are the practices inbetween. And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating.”

Source: Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

“They say that dogs may dream, and when Topsy was old, his feet would move in his sleep. With his eyes closed he would often make a noise that sounded quite human, as if greeting someone in his dreams. At first it seemed that he believed Sara would return, but as the years went by I understood that his loyalty asked for no reward, and that love comes in unexpected forms. His wish was small, as hers had been -- merely to be beside her. As for me, I already knew I would never get what I wanted.”

Ifs Years Firsts Humans May Dream Eye Wanted Moving Form Wish Sleep Feet Dog Return Understood Rewards Loyalty Noise His Eyes Unexpected Greetings

Author:Alice Hoffman

“And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has vanished.”

Humans Form Understood Essence Shells Alex Human Form Scotty

Author:Jennifer Egan

“In face of this modern nihilism, Christians are often lacking in courage. We tend to give the impression that we will hold on to the outward forms whatever happens, even if God really is not there. But the opposite ought to be true of us, so that people can see that we demand the truth of what is there and that we are not dealing merely with platitudes. In other words, it should be understood that we take this question of truth and personality so seriously that if God were not there we would be among the first of those who had the courage to step out of the queue.”

“Remember where you came from, where you’re going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place. You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind. Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life-forms, and they'll call you crazy.”

Ifs Way Mind Firsts Facts Remember Form Dies Enjoy Laughing Crazy Dying Training Understood Horrible Mess Execution Seriousness Messiah Remember Where You Came

Author:Richard Bach

“We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults , to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.”

Way Want Needs May Form Mother Wish Understanding Psychology Demand Understood Adults Meetings Nostalgia Violent Hook Vengeance Grudge Vengeful

Author:Adam Phillips

“At that moment, Harry fully understood for the first time why people said Dumbledore was the only wizard Voldemort had ever feared. The look upon Dumbledore's face as he stared down at the unconscious form of Mad-Eye moody was more terrible than Harry could have ever imagined. There was no benign smile upon Dumbledore's face, no twinkle in the eyes behind the spectacles. There was cold fury in every line of the ancient face; a sense of power radiated from Dumbledore as though he were giving off burning heat.”