"If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer."
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"It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare."
"Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction."
"The work really isn't about the specific content to me. As I'm putting things together, it's more about consistencies in form."
"Each genre exerts a considerable spell, as a kind of "form" to be filled, as a Shakespearean sonnet is filled."
"The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship."
"The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do."
"To overvalue something is a form of lying."
"What I know for sure is that I am a temporary expression in physical form of the one consciousness that expresses itself throughout the universe. I am not separate from that."
"To love is to recognize yourself in another. The others "otherness" then stands revealed as an illusion pertaining to the purely human realm, the realm of form."
"Imitation is the sincerest form of insult."
"Habit is a form of exercise."
"According to me [Sigmund ] Freud did not notice that the dream expresses the inner experiences in a symbolic form,resembling in that, poetry or other art forms."
"There are two forms of justice. There is what is called retributive justice and there is restorative justice."
"confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder"
"They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself."
"For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method."
"Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism."
"Human life must be some form of mistake."
"Your lifetime in form is to be honored and celebrated. Go beyond your enslavement, and live fully in the now, as this is the only time you have."