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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not — a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to command her. It had been a — Paul Bowles, The Spider's House
The matter of sedition is of two kinds: much poverty and much discontentment....The causes and motives of sedition are, — Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful — Clive Barker
Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentr — Francis Bacon
The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; whence proceeds sciences wh — Carl Sagan
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of — David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
i heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the co — Bill Hirst
There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to gape — Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes