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"It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block."
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"I tell you as well as myself: what we see with our own eyes is nothing other than a cloud concealing what we should perceive with our inner sight, while what we listen to with our ears is merely a ringing sound disturbing what we should understand with our hearts. When we see a man being taken to prion by a police officer let us not hasten to assume he is a wrong-doer. When we see a corpse, and a man standing beside it with bloodstained hands, let us not conclude that this is a victim and his assassin. When we hear one man singing and another lamenting, let us ascertain which one of the two is truly happy."
"People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so."
"People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time."
"To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind."
"I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things."
"Say, there is a book written by Tolstoy sitting right there on the table. To our unique human consciousness, the reality of the papers in the book, is infinitely different from the valuable literature that they possess. For the kind of consciousness possessed by the bug which eats those papers, literature is non-existent, yet for the Human Consciousness, literature has a greater value of truth than the papers themselves."
"It seemed natural; natural to the moment's peculiar reality that was sharply clear, but cut off from everything, immediate, but disconnected, like a bright island in a wall of fog, the heightened, unquestioning reality one feels when one is drunk."
"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
"What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen?"
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"The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public."
"In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters."
"Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them."
"Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!"
"Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?"
"Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite."
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