No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art…our world would have remained a jungle.
BERNARD BERENSONPsychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
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There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man’s reason has never learnt to separate them.
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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
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German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.
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How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried.
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I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.
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Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?
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It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.
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There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself.
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