Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.
Johan Huizinga
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I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. -
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. -
There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic. -
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. -
I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.
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- Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.
- An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
- These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.
- History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
- In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.