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“That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men.”
Art and the Handicraftsman • Oscar Wilde“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.”
Our Mutual Friend • Charles Dickens“Either knowledge is not to be attained at all, or if at all, after death. For then, and not til then, the soul will be in herself alone and without the body.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.”
What is art? • Leo Tolstoy“ Food production, and competition and diffusion between societies, led as ultimate causes ... of conquest. ”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)