Formatio Quotes & Sayings

The soul is the form of the body, but not as the shape of a statue is formatio et terminatio materiae, for form does not exist apart from material. There is no whiteness without a white object. But the soul is not a form in this simple sense, and in particular, is not the shape of the material it informs. Therefore, the shape of a being does not affect the being's soul, for then something lower would inform something higher, which is impossible. — Michael Flynn

We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

My fellow man I do not care for.
I often ask me, What's he there for?
The only answer i can find
Is, Reproduction of his kind. — Ogden Nash

Do they stop breathing for a few seconds every time they see me? — Jodi Ellen Malpas

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact. — Donald Rumsfeld

No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years. — G.H. Hardy

it's a troubling paradox -i have total control, but only to the extent i have control over myself. — Blake Crouch

May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us. — Jacqueline Novogratz