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«'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined»
«Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.»
Author: Le Corbusier
(Architect)
| About:
Architecture
| Keywords:
architecture, assembled, assembling, correct, forms, game, magnificent, The Light
«Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.»
Author: Rollo May
| Keywords:
arises, Banks, forcing, forms, latter, limitations, poem, river, river bank, spontaneity, tension, tensions, The River, various, work force, work of art
«Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
entrust, entrusted, entrusting, entrusts, forms, forms of government, good form, in operation, in time, operations, perverted, perverting, perverts, slow, tyrannies, tyranny
«If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.»
Author: William Bennett
(Author, Politician)
| About:
Character,
Children,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
admiration, admire, allegiance, forms, identify, identifying, The Forms, traits
«All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory / of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| Keywords:
absolute, abstraction, beauties, contain, creamed, creams, does not exist, element, emotions, eternal, forms, general, manifestation, particular, phenomena, surface, surface of, The Absolute, The Cream, The Eternal, The General, transitory
«Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
adventurous, although, appears, barn, barns, broad, broads, climbing, connections, creating, destroying, discovering, environment, erecting, erects, forms, gained, gaining, masteries, mastery, mountain, mountain climbing, Obstacles, points, skyscraper, skyscrapers, smaller, started, starting, theory, The Connection, the point, tiny, unexpected, view, views, wider
«All things, oh priests, are on fire . . . The eye is on fire; forms are on fire; eye-consciousness is on fire; impressions received by the eye are on fire.»
Author: Buddha
| Keywords:
After the Fire, consciousness, Consciousness only, eye, fire, Fire I, fire up, firing, forms, impressions, Oh He, on fire, priests, received, take fire, The Eye, The Impressions, under fire
«Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?»
«A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Nations,
Society
| Keywords:
forms, member, moral, personally, responsible, responsible for
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