Form Quotes - Page 60

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.

Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information.

Newton, for instance, attempted to comprehend the diversities of the universe with a single system of mathematical laws, the objectivity, sobriety and logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which, while accepting variations and adjustments according to climate and other needs, could be applied universally.

People read fiction for emotion-not information

Why be formal when you can be fabulously feral? Why be conventional when you can be happy?

Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life.

As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.

Dr. Kissinger was a former child. Jerry Ford was a former child. Even F.D.R. was a former child. I retired from the movies in 1949, and I'm still a former child.

If you had all the world's information directly attached to your brain, or an artificial brain that was smarter than your brain, you'd be better off.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self.

[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism.

We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American dream that wealth is denied to no one, that each individual has the right to fly as high as his strength and ability will take him.

Language changes only those aspects of our consciousness which are based on information, but not the feelings themselves. The words are as stones that can cause wounds or as caresses that becalm and that guide us, but the content of consciousness is intrinsic.

Now death is with us in such abundance and hovers over us in so massive a form that we don't have time to invent a mythology, nor is our creativity directed toward same. Now it's to prevent death.

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!

It is not possible for form to do without matter because it is not separable, nor can matter itself be purged of form.

The whole of religion has been one uniform curse to the human race.

The transformation of the experience: that is pure art.

Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.

It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.

National security is the fig leaf against freedom of information.

Imagination is a form of seeing

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.