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National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
You must not think that feeling is everything. . . . Art is nothing without form. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people. View quote
Desiderius Erasmus
Two things form the bedrock of any open society-freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country. View quote
Salman Rushdie
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law. View quote
Denis Diderot
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. View quote
Lewis Mumford
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. View quote
André Gide
Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience. View quote
Muhammad Iqbal
For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline. View quote
Pablo Picasso
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. View quote
Spike Milligan
Smiles form the channels of a future tear. (Lord Byron)
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes. View quote
Dave Barry
An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing. View quote
Quentin Crisp
If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed. View quote
William Winwood Reade
Imitation is the sincerest form of television. View quote
Fred Allen
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda it is a form of truth. View quote
John F. Kennedy
The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Some springs are acid, as at Lyncestus and in Italy in the Velian country, at Teano in Campania, and in many other places. These when used in drinks have the power of breaking up stones in the bladder, which form in the human body. View quote
Vitruvius
Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you. (Martha Beck)
Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse. View quote
Peter De Vries
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language. View quote
Herbie Hancock
The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet. View quote
Yvon Chouinard
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