Home > Topic > the only form
1 " I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. "
― Stephen Hawking
2 " The task of a philosophy of photography is to reflect upon this possibility of freedom - and thus its significance - in a world dominated by apparatuses; to reflect upon the way in which, despite everything, it is possible for human beings to give significance to their lives in the face of the chance necessity of death. Such a philosophy is necessary because it is the only form of revolution left open to us. "
― Vilém Flusser , Towards a Philosophy of Photography
3 " Writing is probably the only form of art, through which you can express, which you would otherwise wouldn't dare to say in person.... "
4 " Danilo's was the kind of place where many drinking men come to hide, be it from their wives, in-laws, their jobs or life in general. it was where men and women can come to drink poison as if it was the only form of medicine available to remedy the migraine headache called life. The lighting dim and secluded, mostly covering the tables, counters and the door to the bathroom. The walls were decorated in decades of memories, favorite sports teams and other miscellaneous decor that was typical of small bars such as this one. It was too dark to tell what they were from a distance. There was a thick layer of smoke hovering in the air around the ceiling lights, the place was smothered in it but was strongest above everyone's heads. The smell was the classic stale bar odor of cigarettes and cheap cigars. "
― J.C. Joranco , Halfway to Nowhere
5 " If, to him, love was a celebration of one’s self and of existence—then, to the self-haters and life-haters, the pursuit of destruction was the only form and equivalent of love. "
― Ayn Rand , Atlas Shrugged
6 " Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different houses, clothes, cars. Or thoughts, dreams. But for the poor there is nothing but compulsory grayness, the only form of expression available to poverty. "
― Henning Mankell , The Man from Beijing
7 " Nothing expresses Kafka’s innermost sense of self more profoundly than his lapidary definition of “writing as a form of prayer”: he was a writer. Not a man who wrote, but one to whom writing was the only form of being, the only means of defying death in life. "
8 " When the words have been said and the music has been played, feelingsare the only form of art which will remain to reign. "
9 " When the words have been said and the music has been played, feelings are the only form of art which will remain to reign. (Soar) "
10 " Those who come to Islam because they wish to draw closer to God have no problem with a multiform Islam radiating from a single revealed paradigmatic core. But those who come to Islam seeking an identity will find the multiplicity of traditional Muslim cultures intolerable. People with confused identities are attracted to totalitarian solutions. And today, many young Muslims feel so threatened by the diversity of calls on their allegiance, and by the sheer complexity of modernity, that the only form of Islam they can regard as legitimate is a totalitarian, monolithic one. That there should be four schools of Islamic law is to them unbearable. That Muslim cultures should legitimately differ is a species of blasphemy. "
― Abdal Hakim Murad
11 " Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact. "
12 " Our rages daughters of despair creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright. "
13 " The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. "
14 " My mother was a very talented artist. When she was in jail, we'd write letters back and forth; that was pretty much the only form of communication we had. "
15 " I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. "
16 " The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics. "
17 " Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships. "
