There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

Quote by A Bartlett Giamatti

Topics: Society Quotes

All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.

All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart...

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart...

On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On...

On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On...

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it...

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it...

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant...

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant...

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's...

Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's...

Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that...

Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that...

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art...

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art...

Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly...

Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly...

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into...

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into...

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for...

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for...

Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.

Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.