#human form

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#breathe #cannot #eat #exist #forever

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#animal #badly #beyond #cousins #creation

The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment. ↗

— Brock Yates

#been #bicycle #child #damage #elevated

Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense. ↗

— Charles Perrault

#birth #common good #disputed #fairy #form

God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#form #forms #god #himself #human

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#cannot #concrete #consciousness #consists #form

Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#age #another #around #deepest #form

I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form. ↗

— Huston Smith

#am #assumed #form #god #had

The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch. ↗

— Julius Streicher

#devil #exterminated #fitting #form #human

It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form. ↗

— Prince Andrew

#form #grasp #head #human #human form