Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Dante Alighieri
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. -
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing. -
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If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.' -
So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.
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- Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
- Nature is the art of God.
- Beauty awakens the soul to act.
- Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
- The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.