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- The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes...…
- I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.
- If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all,…
- Nature did all things well
- You must know that I am, of all men who were ever born, the most inclined to love persons. Whenever I behold someone who possesses…
- The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.
- I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all…
- If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
- Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do…
- Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
- From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.
- I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.
- If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all.
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide