Multiformity Quotes & Sayings

And now, she is here with me.. Strange... how one person can make life feel so new. — Jeff Loveness

Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also are the organs required to effect them ... Animals, however, that not only live but perceive, present a great multiformity of pacts, and this diversity is greater in some animals than in others, being most varied in those to whose share has fallen not mere life but life of high degree. Now such an animal is man. — Aristotle.

It's been such a struggle to learn all that I have; I wouldn't want to give any of that knowledge up. That's why I've always loved acting; as a kid, I didn't necessarily like my real life, so I could escape into these other characters and experience a life completely different from my own. — Drew Barrymore

I don't think Donald Barthelme would have minded being called a confusing writer. Confusion was a favorite subject for him in his essays and reviews, and it's enacted in his fiction in a mishmash of dizzying incongruities. — Joanna Scott

Life is a collaboration, it's not a solo act. — Tim Gunn

Chronic boredom compensated or uncompensated constitutes one of the major psychopathological phenomena in contemporary technotronic society, although it is only recently that it has found some recognition. — Erich Fromm

The thing man seeks is seeking him - the telephone was seeking Bell! — Florence Scovel Shinn

There is a conceptual depth as well as a purely visual depth. The first is discovered by science; the second is revealed in art. The first aids us in understanding the reasons of things; the second in seeing their forms. In science we try to trace phenomena back to their first causes, and to general laws and principles. In art we are absorbed in their immediate appearance, and we enjoy this appearance to the fullest extent in all its richness and variety. Here we are not concerned with the uniformity of laws but with the multiformity and diversity of intuitions. — Ernst Cassirer

When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us. — Nadine Gordimer

The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right. — Abraham Lincoln

What use are memories when memories can do little more than fade? — Anthony Doerr

If you can get to be you, why can't I get to be me? — Noorilhuda

We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future. — Madeleine L'Engle

I think yoga is like anything else, it's a workout in the sense you are going to get what you put into it. — Andrew Whitworth

No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was. — Annie Leibovitz

Biblical Theology ... is that part of Exegetical Theology which deals with the revelation of God in its historic continuity ... Biblical Theology, rightly defined, is nothing else than the exhibition of the organic progress of supernatural revelation in its historic continuity and multiformity. — Geerhardus Vos