All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man.

Quote by Bernard Berenson

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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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

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...

The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less...

The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less...

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.

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than...

The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than...

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one...

All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one...