#formless

It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience. ↗

— Charles Ives

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I'm in no position to hand down any advice," he said, "but there's a rule I follow when I don't know what to do." "A rule?" "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. Whenever I run into a wall I follow that rule, and it always works out. Even if it's hard going at the time. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#float #formless #intangible #interpreters #lack

Law is a formless mass of isolated decisions. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

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We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be "revolutionary" but not transformative. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#every #feeling #formless #inadequate #language

A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#belief #condemned #decisions #essentially #formless

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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