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“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.”
Autumn Leaves • Andre Gide“No profit whatever can possibly be made but at the expense of another. . . . The Merchant only thrives, and grows rich, by the pride, wantonness and debauchery of youth; the husbandman by the price and scarcity of grain; the architect by the ruin of buildings; lawyers, and officers of Justice, by the suits and contentions of men; nay even the honor and office of Divines are derived from our death and vices. A physician takes no pleasure in the health even of his friends . . . nor a soldier in the peace of his country and so of the rest.”
Essays • Michel De Montaigne“A man’s maturity: that is to have rediscovered the seriousness he possessed as a child at play.”
Beyond Good and Evil • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche“What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world — temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Your true biologist will sing you a song as loud and off-key as will a blacksmith, for he knows that morals are too often diagnostic of prostatitis and stomach ulcers. Sometimes he may proliferate a little too much in all directions, but he is as easy to kill as any other organism, and meanwhile he is very good company, and at least he does not confuse a low hormone productivity with moral ethics.”
The Log from the sea of Cortez • John Steinbeck“Madness is something rare in individuals -- but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.”
Beyond Good and Evil • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche