{"quotes":[{"text":"All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["essence","form","perception","religion","sufis","sufism","time","truth"],"id":403,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"},{"text":"Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.","author":"Ambrose Bierce","tags":["change","revolution","form "],"id":1882,"author_id":"Ambrose+Bierce"},{"text":"Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.[Referring to studying fossil remains of the weevil, largely unchanged to the present day.].","author":"Jean-Henri Fabre","tags":["biology","evolution","form","fossil","history","instinct","past","science"],"id":2891,"author_id":"Jean-Henri+Fabre"},{"text":"Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.","author":"William Blake","tags":["body","energy","form","life","reason"],"id":4513,"author_id":"William+Blake"},{"text":"If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.","author":"Antonin Artaud","tags":["art","culture","flames","form","formalism","martyrdom","passion"],"id":5478,"author_id":"Antonin+Artaud"},{"text":"Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men. -On Fairy Stories.","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","tags":["fairy","form","quotes","spells","stories"],"id":10413,"author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien"},{"text":"Enthusiasm is a form of social courage.","author":"Gretchen Rubin","tags":["enthusiasm","social","form "],"id":10566,"author_id":"Gretchen+Rubin"},{"text":"Like the weather or bonds between lovers, transformations cannot always be predicted. All energy transmutes one day or another, in one way or another. Either in its form or composition, or in its position or disposition.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["bond","bonds","change","changes","composition","day","disposition","energy","forecast","form","forsee","future","insight","love","love-bond","lovers","matter","position","predict","prediction","relationships","transform","transformations","transmute","transmutes","weather"],"id":19071,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one without form. That's my rule.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["chance-traveller","choices","form","life-lessons"],"id":29562,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (...)‘And?’‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective in reason, how mean his facilities, how ugly in form and movement, in action how like a devil, in apprehension how like a cow. The beauty of the world? The paragon of animals? To me the quintessence of dust.","author":"Paul Hoffman","tags":["action","apprehension","beauty","bosco","cale","consider","crazy","devil","doubt","facilities","form","four","idea","indeed","insane","last","life","mad","man","men","moments-of-doubt","movement","people","piece-of-work","question","quintessence-of-dust","sanity","things","tomas","true","ugly","world"],"id":30914,"author_id":"Paul+Hoffman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":123,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}