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God appears, and God is Light, to those poor souls who dwell in Night; but does a Human Form display to those who dwell in realms of Day. -- William Blake
Clothes are unique sculptures, dependent on a supporting human form and created to move. -- Virginia Postrel
The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form. -- David Hanson
It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form. -- Prince Andrew
The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch. -- Julius Streicher
I believe in the human form; let me find something, some method, by which that form may achieve the utmost beauty. -- Richard Jefferies
I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form. -- Huston Smith
For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell. -- Josiah Royce
Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age. -- Matthew Simpson
Jesus Christ is the beginning, the middle, and the end of all. In the Gospels he walks in human form upon the earth, and accomplishes the work of redemption. -- Philip Schaff
We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art. -- Andy Warhol
The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment. -- Brock Yates
I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but I've been painting at home more. I really love the human form, and I love faces. I've tried to do landscapes a few times. -- Michelle Pfeiffer
I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward. -- Douglas Coupland
I happen to be a Christian. I was brought up and drenched in that. I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form. -- Huston Smith
As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me. -- Bayard Taylor
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. -- William Ralph Inge
What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing. -- Nellie Bly
Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense. -- Charles Perrault
The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Conversation: The slowest form of human communication. -- Don Herold
No more was seen the human form divine. -- Alexander Pope
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation. -- Walter Benjamin
Human life must be some form of mistake. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Trust is the highest form of human motivation. -- Stephen Covey
Every man carries the entire form of human condition. -- Michel de Montaigne
Every human being in the human form has limitations. -- Eckhart Tolle
To have a human form is a joyful thing. -- Zhuangzi
Crime is a left- handed form of human endeavor. -- John Huston
I think we are worlds compressed into human form. -- Jeanette Winterson
All human happiness and misery take the form of action. -- Aristotle
Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions. -- Madame de Stael
After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor. -- John Huston
After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor. -- John Huston
I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment. -- David Mitchell
Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom. -- Saul Alinsky
Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves. -- Elbert Hubbard
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. -- Robert Bringhurst
I don't think of kids as a lower form of the human species. -- John Hughes
Yielding to Jesus will break every form of slavery in any human life. -- Oswald Chambers
Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form. -- Mark Frost
Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence. -- Randall Jarrell
Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous. -- John Adams
The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race. -- Mark Twain
Art is a product of nature in general, in the particular form of human nature. -- Anton Webern
I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form. -- Hugh Masekela
Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form. -- Dick Morris
We are spirit in human form playing a game called earth life. Enjoy the experience! -- S.A.M.
Filling out the form: Race? Human. Religion? Paiute. Occupation? Criminal anarchy. Hobbies? Survival with honor. -- Edward Abbey
Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development. -- Harry Belafonte
The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness. -- Robert E. Ornstein
To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. -- Stephen Covey
Campaign promises are - by long democratic tradition - the least binding form of human commitment. -- Antonin Scalia
The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents. -- Kenneth Burke
Capitalism has not proven to be a transitional form, a gateway to a higher human future. -- Allen W. Wood
Transcending the cycle of death and rebirth is the real purpose of this life in human form. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing. -- Claude Levi-Strauss
Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human. -- Dar Williams
"¦ but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human. -- John Irving
Some form of common worship and a common place of worship appear to be a human necessity. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The smallest form of life, even an ant or a clam, is equal to a human being -- Ingrid Newkirk
There is a form of clean energy, renewable and absolutely free that too often underestimate: human warmth. -- Corina Abdulahm-Negura
The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-sat-isfied man. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
The worst form of badness is human goodness when human goodness becomes a substitute for the new birth. -- Adrian Rogers
In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character. -- Wilhelm Reich
I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior. -- John Oliver
The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior. -- Margaret Mead
"Secret migration" across borders is a form of human degradation and evidence of the depravity of the human conscience. -- Hassan Blasim
If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true. -- Emile Chartier
I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others. -- Socrates
The superhero aesthetic is all about the human form and showing the body, whether they be female or male. -- Oscar Isaac
The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant. -- Wei Wu Wei
Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker. -- Antonio Porchia
The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Can you take human form in daylight? (Talon) Obviously so. Ever tried to answer a phone without opposable thumbs? (Vane) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
No circumstance in the natural world is more inexplicable than the diversity of form and color in the human race. -- Mary Somerville
God resides in every human form, indeed in every particle of His creations, in everything that is on his earth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making. -- Guy Pearce
People can enjoy music everywhere. Therefore, music is more than a giftbecause it represents a unique form of human freedom. -- Eraldo Banovac
The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty. -- Sigmund Freud
The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form. -- Chauncey Wright
We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power. -- Emma Thompson
All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new. -- Charles Kettering
By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities. -- Socrates
The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute. -- D. H. Lawrence
It is a fundamental misperception, Fouts says to me, to think human life has more value than any other life form. -- Lauren Slater
The true human condition in its most perfect form has no secrets. It does not hide, but exists in clear love. -- Gary Zukav
For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress. -- William Blake
God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form. -- Guru Nanak
Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience. -- Stephen Covey
Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it. -- Paul Mooney
I chose faces and figures as my subject matter simply due to the fact that the human form is already beautiful art. -- Frank Bruno
When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head. -- Rudolf Steiner
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. -- George Bernard Shaw
We are not just humans learning to become buddhas, but also buddhas waking up in human form, learning to become fully human. -- John Welwood
My irritation with Niles was growing, though. I had always thought the quiet man was the most overrated form of human life"." -- Pat Conroy
To have attained to the human form is a source of joy... What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions. -- Zhuangzi
Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared world. -- Stefan Collini
The medium is the message" because it is the medium that shapes and controls the search and form of human associations and action. -- Marshall McLuhan
Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings. -- Helen Cam
I found I am not an anarchistic form creator; I'm intuitive, and I'm trying to figure out a way to explore human fragility. -- Thomas Vinterberg
And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has vanished. -- Jennifer Egan
History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated. -- Johan Huizinga
Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth. -- Blaise Pascal
But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
Nationalism is form of collective narcissism, where the citizens possess an inflated self-love of "their own people," to the exclusion of other human beings. -- Bryant McGill
When all that's left of us is the pure untainted consciousness without form, we'll know what it means when the last human breath expires. -- Zeena Schreck
I had never felt the allure of another human being this strongly, warmth and curiosity mixing to form an unspoken question in the air. -- Lisa Kleypas
The function of ritual... is to give form to the human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth. -- Joseph Campbell
Only in the human form is it possible for life to attain its final goal, which is to realize the all-pervading and infinite Divinity. -- Meher Baba
I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy. -- Jonathan Frakes
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture. -- Richard Dawkins
The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts. -- Edith Wharton
Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price. -- Alexander Herzen
Perhaps her requirements were too great,Or her indulgence for human weakness too small,For her attempts to form a friendship had alwaysEnded in disappointment. -- A.L.O.E.
Love for me is the most sophisticated form that one can give for his desire, may be the only faith is remarkable on human being. -- Luiz Bolognesi
Most of physics is about energy, and physicists understand inefficiencies. I wanted to write a book about our energy options in a neutral, human-accessible form. -- David J. C. MacKay
The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of all human artefacts. -- Marshall McLuhan
No system has ever as yet existed which did not in some form involve the exploitation of some human beings for the advantage of others. -- John Dewey
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning. -- Aaron Copland

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