"We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art."

Dali, Salvador on image   

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad."

Dali, Salvador on madness
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"Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid."

Dali, Salvador on modern and modernism   

"The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert."

Quesnel, Pasquier on truth   

"Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?"

Shakespeare, William on murder
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"No one but a fool is always right."

Hare, David on fools and foolishness
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"Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides."

Hare, David on mind   

"The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it."

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De on modern and modernism   

"The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums."

Koestler, Arthur on war   

"Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual."

Koestler, Arthur on creativity
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"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."

Hugo, Victor on happiness
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"It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate its tremendous branches filled with stars. We have a duty to perform, to work upon the human soul, to defend the mystery against the miracle, to worship the incomprehensible while rejecting the absurd; to accept, in the inexplicable, only what is necessary; to dispel the superstitions that surround religion --to rid God of His Maggots."

Hugo, Victor on duty
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"The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement."

Stott, John R. on despair
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"Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God."

Stott, John R. on faith
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"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on christians and christianity
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"Faith makes a Christian. Life proves a Christian. Trial confirms a Christian. Death crowns a Christian."

Unknown, Source on christians and christianity
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"We pay when old for the excesses of youth."

Proverb on age and aging   

"Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity."

Burrus, Daniel on competition   

"Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?"

Barney, Natalie Clifford on possessions
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"The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy."

Proverb, Persian on beauty   

"Bad taste is a species of bad morals."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on taste   

"Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism."

Greene, Graham on media   

"Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance."

Greene, Graham on happiness
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"A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction."

Greene, Graham on journalism and journalists
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"O, had I but followed the arts!"

Shakespeare, William on art   

"Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal."

Dante Alighieri on beauty
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"Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge."

Dante Alighieri on humankind
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along."

Waugh, Evelyn on art   

"Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them. Don't analyze yourself. Give the relevant facts and let your readers make their own judgments. Stick to your story. It is not the most important subject in history but it is one about which you are uniquely qualified to speak."

Waugh, Evelyn on autobiography   

"Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God."

Waugh, Evelyn on saints   

"What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen."

Waugh, Evelyn on youth   

"Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression."

Waugh, Evelyn on crime and criminals   

"Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden."

Phaedrus on appearance
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"The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish."

Waugh, Evelyn on heaven