True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception.

Quote by Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

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The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the...

The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the...

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would...

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would...

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in...

The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in...

You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought...

You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought...

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the...

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the...

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the...

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the...

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of...

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of...

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked...

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked...

We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do...

We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do...

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away...

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away...

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a...

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a...

There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is...

There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is...

Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes

Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes

We love peace, but not peace at any price. There is a peace more destructive...

We love peace, but not peace at any price. There is a peace more destructive...

Never take a wife till thou hast a house and a fire to put her...

Never take a wife till thou hast a house and a fire to put her...