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- People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
- Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of…
- Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I…
- The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for…
- I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific…
- The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.
- I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror of humanity) that…
- Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the…
- Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within,…
- Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.
- The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an endless and aimless…
- An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
- The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without…
- There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of…
- [Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill. There is a…
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