form Quotes

The soul is the form of the body

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.

We should no more ask if the soul and body are one than if the wax and the shape pressed into it are one.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he refers his problems back to all of them, he will assign the "why" in the way proper to... ...

If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul... ...

A sense is what can take in the forms of things without their physical material, just as wax takes the shape of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.