"Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence."

Art, Existence, Affirmation, Spiritual

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"Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence."

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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"History develops, art stands still."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"We are all artists painting our desires on the canvas of life and time."

Steven Redhead, British Author

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

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"As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Art, Happiness, Philosophy, Values

"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look where he looks and not turn round to face him; I must make of him not a spectacle but a pair of spectacles; in fine, as Professor Alexander would say, I must enjoy him and not contemplate him."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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Explore more quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

"What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind."

Truth

"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."

Politics

"The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting."

Fear

"What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?"

Love

"Who art thou then, O my soul!" (and here [Zarathustra] became frightened, for a sunbeam shot down from heaven upon his face.""O heaven above me," said he sighing, and sat upright, "thou gazest at me? Thou hearkenest unto my strange soul?When wilt thou drink this drop of dew that fell down upon all earthly things-when wilt thou drink this strange soul--When, thou well of eternity! thou joyous, awful, noontide abyss! when wilt thou drink my soul back into thee?"

Spiritual

"What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!"

Independence

"Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows."

Learning

"Profundity of thought belongs to youth clarity of thought to old age."

Wisdom

"Music heals all forms of misery."

Art

"I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity."

Philosophy