There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man’s reason has never learnt to separate them.
BERNARD BERENSONGovernment is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
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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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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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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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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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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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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.
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I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
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The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
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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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I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
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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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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
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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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