No Form Quotes

This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.

Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.

For what lies inside of man is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In man's inner organism we have an image of the entire cosmos.

The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.

It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.

Profit sharing in the form of stock distributions to workers would help to democratize the ownership of America's vast corporate wealth which is today appallingly undemocratic and unhealthy.

As soon as you raise a thought and begin to form an idea of it, you ruin the reality itself, because you then attach yourself to form.

Since with all my soul I behold the face of my beloved, therefore all the beauty of his form is seen in me.

as the spirit wanes the form appears

A boy or girl who knows that love abounds at home will not resent well-deserved punishment. One who is unloved or ignored will hate any form of discipline.

The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form.

My forms are geometric, but they don't interact in a geometric sense. They're just forms that exist everywhere, even if you don't see them.

The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself.

The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.

You cannot expect the Form before the Idea,For they will come into being together.

It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form.

Do not have an attitude, open yourself and focus yourself and express yourself. Reject external form that fails to express internal reality.

The point of art is not simply to express ourselves, but to create an external, concrete form in which the soul of our lives can be evoked and contained.

Knowing how you actually want to feel is the most potent form of clarity that you can have.

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.

In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.

All sin is a form of insanity. Satan is the most insane being of all because he still believes he can defeat God

Music connects with the soul. I think it's the quickest art form to the soul.

Ethanol and biodiesel allow people to burn a cleaner form of energy.

The human form is a microcosm of the universe. All that supposedly exists outside us in reality exists in us. The world is in you and can become known in you, as you.

[C]ensorship in any form is the opening wedge for fascism, since it places arbitrary and unwarranted power in the hands of individuals.

The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free.

Joy comes form knowing God loves me, knows who I am and where I'm going ... that my future is secure as I rest in Him.

A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.

Well, I think the worst part about tribalism is its tendency to fundamentalize, and if I can fight fundamentalism in any of its forms I'm happy.

Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.

I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself.

I tried to take heavy metal... and balled it up and chopped it in half and really tried to create a new form of energy. I really tried to re-shape extreme music as I see it through my eyes.

A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.

Canadian federalism is more than a form of government. It's also a system of values that allows different people in diverse communities to live and work together in harmony for the good of all.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse.

Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

No circumstance in the natural world is more inexplicable than the diversity of form and color in the human race.

Our expertise is solar energy and we don't want to focus on other forms and we never push for solar form everywhere like say in upper hill areas where eco-hydro or biogas is more viable.

When Opportunity came, the person didn't realize it because it came in the form of misfortune.

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

There is no element of genius without some form of madness.

I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me. So I have to cover all the areas.

Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.

In my opinion, everything, every shape, every bit of natural form, animals, people, pebbles, shells, anything you like are all things that can help you to make a sculpture.

Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.

Any nations right to a form of government and economic system of its own choosing is inalienable. Any nations attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible.

It is the low drive for sameness and the hatred of otherness that characterizes all forms of leftism, which inevitably are totalitarian.