"The whole universe is composed of name and form. Whatever we see is either a compound of name and form, or simply name with form which is a mental image."
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"He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death."
"Humility is the worst form of conceit."
"Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves."
"Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous."
"It is as if something somewhere were 'known' in the form of images - but not by us."
"Always stand by form against force."
"We only get one life. Wasting someone's time is the subtlest form of murder."
"To be properly expressed a thing must proceed from within, moved by its form: it must come, not in from without but out from within."
"A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture."
"Happiness is the highest form of health."
"I cannot understand how a man can appear in print claiming to disbelieve everything that he presupposes when he puts on the surplice. I feel it is a form of prostitution."
"The future is only a thought form. Work with the present moment. Be with what is."
"My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all."
"A form of self-delusion."
"O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!"
"The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension."
"All forms of government are pernicious, including good government."
"…all things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God."
"Impulses of intelligence constantly create the body in new forms every second."