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All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca

It is a prove of the true, rightly understood true religion, that she brings us back to the beautiful.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

They who have presumed to dogmatize on Nature, as on some well-investigated subject, either from self-conceit or arrogance, and in the professorial style, have inflicted the greatest injury on philosophy and learning.
Francis Bacon

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
Bernard Berenson

It just doesn’t feel like standing and watching while a tsunami is bearing down on you, which is how the nonfiction feels to me.
David Foster Wallace

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.
Johan Huizinga

lat. peregrinus - the stranger
lat. peregrinator - the traveller

What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.
Johan Huizinga

There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.
William Hogarth