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Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam…
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At each epoch of history the world was in a hopeless state, and at each epoch of history the world muddled through;…
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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
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Since science's competence extends to observable and measurable phenomena, not to the inner being of things, and to the means, not to…
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A true Christian is a man who never for a moment forgets what God has done for him in Christ and whose…
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Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
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Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you.…
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Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is…
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The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even…
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God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth
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I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops,…
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The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they…
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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing…
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Everything we call a trial, a sorrow or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there, the gift is there, and…
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As a man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he…
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Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields…
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There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the…
— John Henry Newman
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Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the…
— Jacques Maritain
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I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I…
— Socrates
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The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his…
— George Santayana
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Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief. A water diviner is a…
— Bunker Roy
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Poet, patting more nonsense foamed From the sea, conceive for thecourts Of these academies, the diviner health Disclosed in common forms.
— Wallace Stevens
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