An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
From George Santayana
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
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