"If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them."
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"A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity."
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"Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any."
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"In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity."
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"Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope."
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"Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors."
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"In Greece wise men speak and fools decide."
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"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
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"Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."
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"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect..."
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"Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good."
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"It is a great bond to dislike the same things."
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"Only the dead have seen the end of the war."
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"The earth has music for those who listen."
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"Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds."
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"Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world."
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"In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that."
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"love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers."
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"If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved."
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"There must ... be in our very nature a very radical and widespread tendency to observe beauty, and to value it. No account of the principles of the mind can be at all adequate that passes over so conspicuous a faculty."
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