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

Quote by Bernard Berenson

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Governments last only as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed

Governments last only as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed

All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and...

All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and...

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked...

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked...

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people...

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people...

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry...

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry...

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry...

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry...

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself...

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself...

All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and...

All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and...

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and...

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and...

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on...

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on...

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in...

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in...

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the...

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the...

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the...

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the...

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.