"There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious."

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"There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious."

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

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"Music heals all forms of misery."

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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

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"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."

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