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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.

Bernard Berenson

Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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Appetite Satisfied Taste
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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Aging Die May Self
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Government Long Taxation
I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Taster Tea Way Wine
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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Happiness Humble Intelligence Jobs
Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people, if not the eagerness, the passion for the same thing?
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Enemy Greater Interest Passion People
The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
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Art Helping Justification
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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Boast Cry Despair Hope
From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament… the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
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Childhood Dream Fatherhood
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Comparison History Truth
No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art…our world would have remained a jungle.
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Art Jungle Our Remained World
Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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Genius Reaction Training
International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.
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Affair People Way
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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Art Concern Men
Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
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Art Government Momentary
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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Destiny Fate Men

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