Mental Forms

Famous quotes containing the words mental forms, mental and/or forms:

    “It is human agitation, with all the vulgarity of needs small and great, with its flagrant disgust for the police who repress it, it is the agitation of all men ... that alone determines revolutionary mental forms, in opposition to bourgeois mental forms.”
    —Georges Bataille (1897–1962)

    “Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.”
    —Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948)

    “The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.”
    —Italo Calvino (1923–1985)