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Man, as a form, bears within him the eternal principle of being, and by economic movement along his ...

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It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have somet...

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Look upon men and things with the inner eye, with its form and desire, never forgetting that the sha...

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Wisdom is the central form which gives meaning and position to all the facts which are acquired by k...

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Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

Fire is our first form of technology.

The best criticism, and it is uncommon, is of this sort that dissolves considerations of content int...

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Susan SontagAgainst Interpretation and Other Essays

What did one see if one looked in any depth into the world of this writer's fiction? Elegant self-co...

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Thomas MannDeath in Venice and Other Tales

Toutes les opinions ne se valent pas, et il ne faut pas confondre l'éloquence d'une parole avec la j...

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Tzvetan TodorovIn Defence of the Enlightenment

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Disciples and devotees…what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the t...

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The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void i...

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Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Ene...

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William BlakeThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

The perfection of yoga, therefore, does not terminate in voidness or impersonalism; on the contrary,...

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Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with fo...

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Antonin ArtaudThe Theater and Its Double

Now take a human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of...

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Mathematics takes us still further from what is human into the region of absolute necessity, to whic...

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The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of prai...

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The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of prai...

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The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of prai...

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The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of prai...

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The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of prai...

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The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of prai...

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The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of prai...

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The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of prai...

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Fragments are the only forms I trust.

...it would be a very naive sort of dogmatism to assume that there exists an absolute reality of thi...

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Ernst CassirerAn Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture

Failure too is a form of death.

If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one wit...

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No permanence is ours; we are a waveThat flows to fit whatever form it finds:Through night or day, c...

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Hermann HesseThe Glass Bead Game

Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men. -On Fairy S...

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Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness. The soul is in a manner all that is: the sou...

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