Quotes about conformation
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“Science was a social construct, but it was also and most importantly its own space, conforming to reality only; that was its beauty. Truth is beauty, as the poet had said, speaking of science. And it was; the poet had been right”

Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer

they weren’t always
Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 13, “Experimental Procedures” (p. 657)

Beauty , Truth , Reality , Science

“Reform only means more conformity. It is form first that is needed.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)

“For this, if for no other reason, degeneration of creative ability in America has had ample support, and what nobility our society might still have is in danger of being submerged in overwhelming tides of rising conformity.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)

Support

“Thus the plausible expedient has become gospel and continues to be generally foisted upon those who seek better things; the conformities proclaimed by authority, however specious, temporarily mistaken for Godhead.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)

“This drift toward quantity instead of quality is largely distortion. Conformity is always too convenient? Quality means individuality, is therefore difficult. But unless we go deeper now, quantity at expense to quality will be our national tragedy—the rise of mediocrity into high places.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

A Testament (1957)

“I spoke the other day to the art historian Vanni Scheiwiler who publishes in Milan. But Signor Scheiwiler is pessimistic; he says that under the influence of the new conformism the city, after all the cultural centre of Italy, has been undergoing a decline in intellectual vitality. Anyone who comes up with something that does not fit in with the line is promptly put down by being called a Fascist. The word Fascist is reported so often that one wonders whether it hasn’t lost all meaning! This reminded me of what Ignazio Silone said in 1945 soon after he returned to Italy from his Zurich exile: “The fascism of tomorrow will never say ‘I am Facism’. It will say: ‘I am anti-Facism’.””

Ignazio Silone (1900–1978) Italian author and politician

Source: https://books.google.de/books?id=CPdKDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT250 PT250 books.google
Source: François Bondy: Italian Censorship (European Notebook). Encounter Band 47, No. 2 (1976) August, p. 51 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=iS0dAQAAMAAJ&q=silone; Reprint in: European Notebooks 1954-1985, Routledge, New York 2017,

Art

“The conform person with your soul will make you fall in love with himself, yourself and your life.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La persona conforme alla vostra anima vi farà innamorare di sé stessa, di voi stessi e della vostra vita.
Source: prevale.net

Soul , Personality , Love , Life

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