Forms Quotes

Down in adoration falling, Lo! the sacred Host we hail; Lo! o'er ancient forms departing, Newer rites of grace prevail; Faith for all defects supplying, Where the feeble senses fail.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.

Rudolf Carnap

The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.

Louis Pasteur

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

Honor de Balzac

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

Douglas MacArthur

And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.

John Grierson

Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.

Dulles, John Foster

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.

David Rockefeller

There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through.

Dan Rice

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

Philip Guston

Water is the only substance on earth that is naturally present in three different forms - as a liquid, a solid (ice) and as a gas (water vapor)

Antoine

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

Isaiah Berlin

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

Rita Mae Brown

Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life

Charles Darwin